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Whats Driving the IT Client

IT providers love to associate their products with the satisfying experience of driving a well-tuned sports car. We hear about "dashboards" and "cockpits" for...

QuickBase Builds Web Apps Fast

With improved customization capabilities and more prebuilt applications, the latest version of Intuits QuickBase hosted database application gives companies a convenient option for building...

Variations on Three Systems Themes

My letter of last week, urging that systems be designed to doubt themselves, generated a surprising amount of reader mail for a week when...

IBM Gets Help Finding ISV Talent

In a continuing effort to expand its developer base, IBM is tapping venture capital firms to find hot new companies in emerging technology areas...

Systems Must Be Designed to Doubt

My son looked at the minuscule trunk of the rental car, then at our stack of luggage—made larger than usual by an extra suitcase...

Apache Pulls the Plug on Avalon

The Apache Software Foundation has shut down the top-level Avalon project. Apache Avalon, which began in 1999 to provide Java software for component and container...

Eclipse Refreshes Platform for Test, Performance Tools

The Eclipse Foundation on Tuesday announced that the next version of its test and performance tools project will be available this week. The Ottawa, Ontario,...

Kenai Launches Web Services Security Tool

Kenai Systems Inc. has introduced technology for testing Web services for security issues as the services are being developed. The Rocklin, Calif., companys ExamineST Web...

Past Year Is Prologue

Technology developments this year started slowly but wound up in a merger and divestiture frenzy that shows no signs of letting up. But behind...

App Security Is Lacking

In 2004, several technologies vied for the limited enterprise dollars earmarked for protecting public-facing applications—and created a lot of confusion in the marketplace about...