(Elizabeth Montalbano and Barbara Darrow) Oracle plans to meld Business Activity Monitoring functionality into a new release of its J2EE-based application server this summer. BAM drills down into systems to troubleshoot problems in business workflows and builds on the Business Process Execution
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Call for Papers Now Open
The Fifth Annual Web Services Edge 2005 East – International Web Services Conference & Expo, to be held February 15-17, 2005 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of Web services and Service-Oriented Applications (see
Oracle and IBM vie for database top place
IDC has reported that the market for relational and object-relational databases was $13.6bn in 2003. Coming in first was Oracle, which had 39.8% market share with $5.4bn, followed by IBM with 31.3% share, at $4.25bn. Microsoft followed with 12.1% of revenues, at $1.65bn. However, Gartner pegged
IBM spices up Masala
(Robert Westervelt) IBM is embarking on a widespread testing program for its DB2 Information Integrator software, Masala, which drills into disparate data sources to return unified reports to users. (R)
Developing VoiceXML applications: Using the IBM Voice Toolkit for WebSphere Studio
(Mark Weber) In this first part of a series on voice application development, Mark Weber covers the basics of voice applications based on the VoiceXML language. He provides an overview of the Voice Toolkit for WebSphere Studio, and uses the toolkit and WebSphere Voice Server SDK to develop a VoiceXM
Creating an In-Memory Database Using XML and XPath — Part 2
(Niall Ginsbourg) Speed is in the Structure. Some of you may have tried this before, and if you used something like ADO to produce your XML file from a recordset, you will find this technique very, very slow. I was put well off the scent about a year ago when I tried it myself. This is simply becaus
FIX: The dynamic Snapshot Agent may fail when you use a dynamic snapshot for merge publications in SQL Server 2000
When you use a dynamic snapshot for merge replications, the dynamic Snapshot Agent may fail. Additionally, you may receive an incorrect syntax error message that is similar to the following: SourceTypeId = 5 SourceName = MyMachine ErrorCode = 156 ErrorText = Incorrect syntax near the keywo
Materialize Your Views
(Michelle A. Poolet) The next release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, will contain many features and extensions to make you more productive, especially if you’re doing database-driven Web-application development. However, Microsoft has delayed the final release of SQL Server 2005 until the first
Hidden Dangers!
(James Travis) Don’t jump the gun before you read. First let’s discuss security at the personal level. Many folks forget that the biggest threat is not outside their company but inside. They walk away from their desk and forgetting to 3 finger salute and lock the desktop. While they are away a
XML Sockets in Flash
(Richard Lyman) In this article, the XML language is not explained at all. For a tutorial on XML, see XML Basics. I do plan on discussing certain methods of formatting your XML so that parsing in the Flash Player 5.04 is faster. Flash has always been meant to facilitate SVG, primarily for web delive