On top of the proposed document formats, the OASIS UBL group has released diagrams based on the unified modeling language (UML), a standard for software development, that give software engineers tools to build applications using XML documents.
IBM is set to buy modeling tools company Rational Software for $2.1bn in a bid to win over more application developers and take on Microsoft's .Net initiative. Rational's "life cycle" tools for modeling and project management will complement IBM's...
It may be that changes can be seen as differences in the pattern of relationships between things. The example should be good enough to illustrate that we need some conscious review of the way that we approach understanding and modeling in...
IDC said the top five relational database software companies, ranked according to revenue, are Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and NCR Teradata. Clearly, the bulk of revenue in the RDBMS (relational database management system) market is becoming...
Microsoft has said it plans to begin testing new modeling tools, codenamed Whitehorse, this year. CEOs also got a pitch on Microsoft's "smart client" strategy, using productivity applications such as the latest version of Office to retrieve and...
However, the crudity of our concepts of money, economics and wealth, often sees us losing sight of what we really value and what is really important. More recently that money has transmuted to bits, mere numbers in databases that reflect our wealth...