The suite supports XML, HTTP, FTP, electronic data interchange Internet integration (EDIINT) and Odette File Transfer Protocol (OFTP). The Sun-Netscape Alliance has upgraded two of its ecommerce packages and bundled them with Netscape's Directory...
SAP has set its sights on the application server market in a move that will have been registered at the headquarters of market leaders BEA Systems and IBM. Application server software is middleware that helps create an ebusiness from a company's...
Oracle bundles extra features into its application server, including portal software that allows companies to create Web portals for their employees, customers and business partners. In June, Dell certified its PowerEdge servers to run on release 2...
The new WebSphere version supports web services technologies based on the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. The company said the software also supports many technologies that will be part of future releases of J2EE.
Best practices in the use of the leading technology trends of web services and portals integrate them with .Net/J2EE as the development infrastructure, with web services as the key connection infrastructure to implement portals.
Enterprise portals can offer access to all enterprise resources," says Gartner's Drakos. Semantics aside, portals are establishing themselves as the enterprise interface of choice. The increasing proliferation of portals and standardisation of the...