This evolution has been underpinned by application architectures that have moved from client/server to distributed computing to web applications to web services with the end game being services on demand.
The flaw affects every version of the operating system from Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris 9 on both Sun's Sparc and Intel's x86 architectures, ISS stated in its advisory. The flaw, a memory problem known as a buffer overflow, appears in the X Windows...
Now, Sun says the initiative finally is catching on, thanks to improvements in connectivity and in processing power, and to a need for software that can be easily modified to fit new system architectures.
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the subject de jour with IT vendors, who have been using the term as if the concept has been totally understood by the buying audience and is well along the way to general implementation.
New components and architectures could be designed to be more energy and resource efficient. Another tactic is for IT developers and vendors to start improving the 'green appeal' of their products, both at the component level and at the whole...
Factors such as business process outsourcing (BPO), software as a service (SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), along with the rise of the emerging economies, are cited. Yet the one component of the PC that has gone up in price is the...
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