Cap Gemini is using XML technology to set up a Europe-wide system for the trading of mutual funds - a market it claims will be worth £6.5bn by 2003. The consultancy is joining up with AssureWeb, the European Fund and Administration, and Microsoft...
Oracle and Commerce One will be very, very key players in this project and both will be providing the technology for it," he said. Tony Clifford-Winters, ecommerce advisor at research company Sitdl, said: "There could be major hurdles to...
In spite of the boom, the market for software modules is still very restricted to a small number of players. He counts BEA, IBM, Borland, Iona and Sun among the big players. Portals will benefit from the fact that - in the medium term - neither...
The Treasury has opened the document to consultation until 10 October 2003 because of complaints from the software industry that UK companies are at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals when developing innovative technologies.
Yankee says that the two biggest concerns in the business community are which type of IM technology will gain the largest acceptance and how long it will take for wide-scale IM network interoperability to emerge.
Most know from experience that trying to drive unfamiliar ideas, products and technologies into their customer base before general market acceptance can be very challenging from a commercial perspective.