George DiGiacomo

IBM has announced the IBM Enterprise Storage Server — code-named “Shark” — a new enterprise disk storage system designed to provide universal access to data across enterprise computing environments. Built upon the IBM’s Seascape Storage Enterprise Architecture, the Enterprise Storage Server is designed to expand and to incorporate new storage innovations. It incorporates a ‘snap-in’ […]

SoftQuad Software Inc. and Object Design Inc., Monday announced a strategic alliance to integrate and jointly market SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML authoring environment and Object Design’s eXcelon XML eBusiness information server. The integrated products assist in developing, managing and publishing XML content for a variety of eBusiness applications, including knowledge management, Web product catalogs and Web […]

Allaire Corp. today introduced Allaire Spectra, a packaged system for content management, e-commerce and personalization. Allaire Spectra is designed to use best-practices established by Internet businesses, uniting content, commerce and customer interaction capabilities into a common model for enterprise-wide Web systems. Incorporating best practices in building and running large-scale Web businesses, Allaire Spectra is based […]

Unify Corp. Tuesday announced the availability of its Unify VISION AppBuilder and AppServer software for the Linux operating system. Both products are certified on Red Hat Linux 5.2 and will be available for Red Hat Linux 6.0 at the end of August. Unify VISION AppBuilder is an object oriented, repository-based component framework for creating application […]

Keynote Systems, Inc. Wednesday announced a new version of its Keynote Perspective service, designed to provide e-commerce sites and Web hosting companies with performance and availability measurements and diagnostics for Web page downloads and multi-page transactions. Keynote Perspective 4.0 provides several new features: Cache Measurement — Web site owners can quantify the benefit of transparent […]

Boulder Software Foundry Tuesday joined the open source wave by releasing the code to its Flashpoint Application Server Technology. Flashpoint is a multi-threaded Web application server which allows C and C++ applications to generate HTML pages as output to Web browsers. It can be used in conjunction with or as a replacement to Apache. The […]

O’Reilly & Associates is now shipping WebBoard 4.0, the newest edition of the forums and chat software for Windows. The upgraded software includes features to customize boards, or forums, and scale up when site traffic requires it. WebBoard is also designed to be easy for end-users to understand and navigate. Top new benefits of WebBoard […]

OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, announced the restructuring of its membership requirements, expanding access to its XML interoperability technical work. The non-profit consortium, which was previously open only to companies who use or provide products or services based on structured information standards such as XML, SGML and CGM, added new […]

Enterprise systems on the Web should make sure their corporate ‘glue’ is strong if they want their project to hold together, a recent study said. The Concours Group research project entitled, “Project ESII: Capitalizing on Enterprise Systems and Infrastructure,” indicated that too many enterprise systems projects have failed to attain their business goals, or failed […]

In response to recent announcements including the XML.org industry portal, more XML users and vendors have joined OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. In its sixth year since being founded as SGML Open, OASIS has seen membership increase 300 percent. New OASIS Sponsor members include DOCUMENTUM, Interwoven, Microsoft, Object Design, Reuters, […]

Lutris Technologies Tuesday released Enhydra 2.1, a Java/XML application server and development environment with new developer tools. Merging W3C consortium standards, XML and the Document Object Model, Enhydra XML Compiler converts HTML documents into Java classes represented as DOM objects. Enhydra is made to allow designers and programmers to co-develop Web applications using Java to […]

The Apache Group Thursday created the Apache Software Foundation to direct the development of the Apache HTTP Server Project and other projects under the Apache umbrella. Apache is a non-profit corporation providing organizational assistance and development frameworks through an international volunteer effort for the Apache open-source projects, including the world’s leading Web server. The Apache […]