Called DirXML, the software promises to link applications, operating systems and databases, enabling access to all enterprise data through the Novell directory structure. DirXML will be available for beta testing by the end of the year, with the...
Web Automation Factory uses the emerging DSML standard (Directory Services Markup Language), which describes directory service information in XML (Extensible Markup Language). Business to business Internet specialist Bowstreet Software, has...
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is fast becoming the de facto standard for the manipulation of information over the Internet, according to Dr Nic Fulton, leader of XML design and architecture at media giant Reuters.
An industry standards body, the SALT Forum, oversees SALT, establishing standards that ensure consistency and interoperability of the markup language. IBM and Sun Microsystems, for example, back competing VoiceXML, a form of Extensible Markup...
The web services framework competes to some extent with the E-Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML), which has also been adopted by OASIS. However, to share identity between sites on the web and between servers inside a company only three...
Ballmer also announced a few new web services initiatives, including Office Information Bridge Framework, a new set of tools for connecting Microsoft's market-leading Office productivity software with Extensible Markup Language-based Web services.