While Sun has acknowledged it has similar technology currently in beta, IBM is currently offering a free download of its AIX developer kit, Java 2 Technology Edition, for AIX 5L. He explained if the vendors of what he called "real" enterprise...
The federated model allows the data to reside with whoever is providing the web service but opens up new issues of interoperability. Written as a standard form of XML messaging, it works by simply wrapping around any application it comes into...
will allow users to customise IM interfaces and is touting interoperability with its consumer product, though the company admits interoperability to the same degree as email is still far away. But [in terms of cross-vendor interoperability], there...
Meanwhile, the J2EE 1.4 specification, which was expected to debut by March, has been pushed back until the summer to provide for Web services interoperability guidelines. But a separate survey, also done by Gartner Dataquest, of 138 corporate...
This summer, Borland plans to release Janeva, an application that lets corporate developers use Microsoft tools to build Windows applications that work with software written to non-Microsoft development models, including Java 2 Enterprise Edition...
For example, enterprise-class IM products from FaceTime Communications and Merak Mail Server intercept instant messages coming from outside a company and send an automated message that challenges senders to respond.