George DiGiacomo

OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, has elected of a new board of directors led by Chrystal Software’s Simon Nicholson who will serve as chairperson and Sun Microsystems’ Bill Smith who becomes president. Jonathan Parsons of Xyvision Enterprise Solutions will serve as vice president/secretary/treasurer and Bob Sutor of IBM Corp. as […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released associating style sheets with XML Documents as a recommendation. Representing cross-industry and expert community agreement on the first efforts for allowing style sheets to be associated with an XML document, the recommendation brings a wider range of design and display options to XML authors. A W3C recommendation […]

“The Need for Speed”, a report released Wednesday by Zona Research, said unacceptable download times will put e-commerce sales at risk if online vendors do not heed the “eight second rule.” The report examines how Web page loading times directly impact the ability to conduct business over the Internet. According to the firm, the key […]

BeOpen.com Tuesday released its fourth-generation enterprise software development and information management tools as open source. The new products, InfoDock, an integrated development environment, the OO-Browser, an object-oriented code browser) and Hyperbole, an hypertextual information manager with Web integration are available now for download at the company’s Web site. InfoDock is an integrated development environment (IDE) […]

IBM Corp. and Rational Software Corp. Monday announced a strategic alliance to jointly develop and market software to help customers accelerate the development and deployment of e-business applications. The alliance provides new integration between e-business software that is based on open industry standards such as XML and Java. IBM and Rational hope to provide support […]

International Data Corp. (IDC) reports the amount of commerce conducted over the Web will top $1 trillion by 2003. According to IDC, the number of users who make purchases over the Web will jump from 31 million in 1998 to more than 183 million in 2003, representing 36% of all Web users. Although the number […]

Bluestone Software Thursday launched Code Blue, a developer program that gives Java, Web, and XML application developers access to Bluestone’s Application Server frameworks for building Internet commerce and data integration applications. Developer registration for Code Blue is free. By eliminating up-front licensing fees, developers working with limited initial budgets can use Sapphire/Web and Bluestone XML […]

WebManageTechnologies Wednesday released NetIntellect 4.0, the newest version of its Web site management and activity analysis software. NetIntellect 4.0 is a Web site management and analysis tool that generates reports with statistical, geographic and marketing information about a Web site. The reports feature several “include and exclude” filters, user interface enhancements, database optimization features, ROI […]

Allaire Corp. Tuesday unveiled ColdFusion Express, a free limited functionality edition of its enterprise Web application server. ColdFusion Express is designed for HTML developers and desktop database developers building basic Web applications on corporate intranets. For projects that need to scale, ColdFusion Express applications can be upgraded to an advanced edition of ColdFusion Server. ColdFusion […]

Oracle Corp. Tuesday released new XML components for Java, C, C++ and PL/SQL. These new components access legacy information and transport it between business applications using XML. Two of the new components announced Tuesday, Oracle XML Parser for C and Oracle XML Parser for C++, are in addition to Oracle’s existing parsers for Java and […]

A new study from Killen & Associates concludes that long-established “blue chip” companies have a leg up on Internet startups in the race to develop electronic commerce. “Billers: EBPP Opportunities and Threats” says that Electronic Bill Presentment and Payments (EBPP)is the key. Established utilities, telephone companies, and financial services companies, for example, already have the […]

Pervasive Software Thursday announced the Pervasive Tango 2000 visual development environment, including full support for COM objects and JavaBeans and drag and drop functionality for pre-coded “business” objects. Tango 2000, slated for release later this summer, examines business logic and associates this logic with the pages that will be generated dynamically by the Tango Application […]