Part of what we have been doing with Rational, and plan to do more of in the future, is striving for more optimisation between IBM middleware and Rational's tools. Microsoft sells its own modeling tools, but relies on Rational for the more complex...
For a start, where do the company's existing horizontal services such as middleware fit in? Vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and HP use terms as diverse as 'on demand', 'agile business', 'grid computing' and 'adaptive infrastructure' to...
Historically, applications have needed to be reworked to enable them to make the most out of a grid but new additions to middleware platforms (such as improvements to Oracle's Application Server platform and IBM's latest version of its WebSphere...
Other over-hyped technologies in the last 12 months included mobile computing, service oriented architecture (SOA), grid computing and voice over IP (VoIP) - although half of respondents said they will be focusing on VoIP in 2006.
Amitabh Ray, vice president of global delivering consulting and application services at IBM, explained: "What we are doing is creating SOA-based reusable components that will enhance the speed to market so we will be able to do implementations...
Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Despite the hype, service oriented architecture (SOA) (20 per cent) and business intelligence (20 per cent) remain low down the tech shopping...