After three years of secret development, Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes, has resurfaced with a powerful new peer-to-peer collaboration platform, called Groove. XML Magazine Editor-in-Chief Steve Gillmor spoke with Ozzie about Groove and its underlying XML object store and communications techn
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Oracle to Announce Competition for .NET
In a bid to become the Microsoft of the Internet age, software giant Oracle is set to announce its plans for a future of Web-based software services. The company, which has been taking potshots at Microsoft, SQL Server, and the .NET strategy for months, will unveil a competing system that corporatio
Semantic Modeling Format
Semantic Modeling Format (SMF) converts English Query projects into SMF grammar, which enables the semantics of English Query domains to be represented in Extensible Markup Language (XML). You can then use programming to create and modify English Query domains based on the XML document object model,
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Security
With the explosion of Internet commerce today, organizations are keeping a tight rein on the information in their databases. Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 makes far-reaching enhancements in security and now Microsoft Windows NT® security is completely integrated into the core of SQL Server.
New versions of Perl RDF tools RDF::Service and RDFStore
RDF::Service 0.4, part of the Wraf Perl RDF application framework, and RDFStore 0.31, a Perl API for RDF Storage, have been released.
XML Wrapper Template: Transform XML Documents into Visual Basic Classes
The XML Wrapper template described in this article transforms XML documents into Visual Basic classes, hiding the more complex parts of using the Microsoft XML parser. Developers who have little knowledge of XML or the Microsoft XML parser can use classes created with the template, thus making it ea
ebXML Passes Critical Interoperability Milestone
At a news conference held in San Francisco, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) demonstrated the results of a proof-of-concept for ebXML, a new, open, standards-based framework for facilitating global trade. An initiative of the United Nations body for Tr
A mSQL and perl Web Server HOWTO
How to build a SQL client/server database using WWW and HTML for the user interface.
Database-SQL-RDBMS HOWTO for Linux (PostgreSQL Object Relational Database System)
A "practical guide" to very quickly setup a SQL Database engine and front end tools on a Unix system.
W3C releases new draft of XML Infoset
Although having previously reached Last Call stage a year ago, the XML Core Working group have decided to publish another Working Draft of the XML Infoset, due to extensive reworking after feedback from the Last Call draft.