Sun Microsystems will be in Boston on February 14-17 at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005, and the Web Services Edge Conference 2005 East at the Hynes Convention Center. You'll have the opportunity to learn more about Sun's work in the Linux and open source communities and meet wi

WebServiceTester 3.0 has enhanced its BPEL based Web Services Orchestration testing by providing Load Testing capabilities for the Workflow of Web Services and easy to debug and diagnose the failures and bottlenecks.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg

The class is directed at people who want to understand how ontology-driven technologies can help them manage the meaning of their information. The course doesn't require any previous experience with Topic Maps or the Ontopia Knowledge Suite (OKS).

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published three new standards to help vendors improve Web services performance for customers: XML-binary Optimized Packaging, SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism, and Resource Representation SOAP Header Block.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web

Parasoft, a leading provider of Web services solutions, announced the release of Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5. Designed to help enterprises develop, manage and orchestrate long-term, persistent Web Service business processes. Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 delivers a comprehensive BPEL engine

Itemfield, the leading provider of next-generation data transformation software for high-performance, mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the appointment of Dr. Jacob Ukelson as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Dr. Ukelson will oversee Itemfield's technical produ

TrustyFiles is a small 1.6MB download. TrustyFiles provides security through an Internet connection blocklist to protect from invasive users and virus scanning support to reject infected files. TrustyFiles High Performance software is optimized for multiple networks and broadband, dia

Blue Titan Software, Inc., the leading provider of service-oriented infrastructure software, and Wipro Technologies Inc., a leader in providing IT solutions and services, today announced a strategic technology alliance to bring a joint service-oriented infrastructure solution to global

Up to 5,000 Oracle/PeopleSoft employees are about to be fired. 'What's not known,' write Roger Strukhoff and Matt Vande Voorde, reporting direct from Pleasanton, CA yesterday, 'is how many of those jobs will be plucked from the sprawling PeopleSoft campus, which dominates the Hacienda

Although Larry Ellison has promised Oracle will be supporting PeopleSoft's products for the next 10 years, that hasn't blunted his determination to dispense with a huge number of its employees. When the stock market closes today, Oracle will announce the casualty figures, certain to be

Bill Gates has been trying to neutralize the shock waves he sent through the open source community when in a press interview he made an analogy between 'communists' and people who advocate a less restrictive IP environment, such Creative Commons licenses and things like that. 'No, no,

Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft battle stressing people out? Well, it's not helping, says a Bay Area stress management expert. 'People are having to live with the uncertainty of 'will I have a job tomorrow,' or on a larger scale, 'will the company be here tomorrow?',' says Lucy Yaldezian, who

Did the geek-fest just finished in Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2005, herald the return of technology and the beginning of the 'post-PC' world?

Last month Microsoft purchased anti-spyware maker Giant Software, which further fueled speculations concerning its anti-spyware and anti-virus products. How and when Microsoft will release these security devices is not known.

IBM is planning on the continued adoption by enterprises of SOA and accompanying XML technology. To support external enterprise data stores, IBM is including XML support in DB2.

DataDirect is forecasting that 2005 will be a year in which a complete overhaul in the way software applications are built will occur.

Yesterday at CES 2005 in Las Vegas Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft, and Judy McGrath, CEO and chairman of MTV Networks, addressed conference attendees. Gates was talking at CES for the seventh successive year.

The XML world is driving new emerging technologies that can be utilized to provide solutions to a variety of problems. This article focuses on two of these technologies: Web services and XQuery. As separate entities, these technologies provide a powerful set of features; but when combi

XMLBeans is an open source XML-Java binding tool used to generate Java classes and interfaces from an XML Schema. The generated Java classes may be used to parse or generate an XML document that conforms to the Schema. Some of the advantages of XMLBeans over JAXB are the ability to par

Programming techniques continue to evolve, and with evolution comes opportunity. The success of the Web, in conjunction with the demand for rich clients and rapid development, has spawned a new generation of declarative languages. XUL, Macromedia's Flex, Microsoft's XAML, and Xamlon, I

Four Moscow-based security experts with Kaspersky Labs have reported that the number of new entries to its malware database jumped by more than 30 in 2004 - with the two record holders for damage caused being Mydoom.a (February) and Sasser.a (May).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is 'We believe that the world's toughest problems can be solved - if we work together' - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that's wreaked such havoc in South Asia. Amazon.com has helped channel even more, $3

Fed up with phishing? Then the UK company Netcraft, famous for its real-time data on the Web sites of the world, has a new toolbar that may be just what you need.

No sooner had we begun our reader-driven quest for the top twenty software people in the world than - by popular acclaim, as they say - we're going to extend the field to choose from...from forty to over a hundred. Here we bring you a sneak peek at the sixty contenders that we'll be ad

SYS-CON Media today announced further details of the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo (www.sys-con.com/edge), to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005. More than 3,000 i

In an all-cash deal worth approximately $10.3 billion, Oracle is going to acquire 100% of PeopleSoft's shares, at a newly increased price of $26.50, a $2.50 increase on its 'best and final' offer which expired in November. PeopleSoft's board has approved the deal. 'We believe this revi

Once publicly free of the PC division, will IBM either buy, or form a close joint venture, with Apple - to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip? That's the question being asked by tech-savvy commentators who wonder what will happen next if Big Blu

According to ClickZ Stats, the trends and statistics analyst that was formerly called CyberAtlas, the worldwide Internet population in 2004 reached 934 million. In the US, the total of online citizens is 185 million out of a total population of 290 million; in China the total is 99.80

'The OS wars are down to three - Microsoft Windows, Sun's Solaris, and Red Hat's Linux,' according to Sun's president and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, the industry's First Blogger Extraordinary.

Free updates, to current holders of Altova Enterprise Suite 2004 licenses, are available for Altova Service Pack 1 update. New customers will receive free iPods for each license purchased.

It is well known that traversing the XML DOM is a sometimes difficult and often tedious task. Executing code based on data retrieved from the DOM is even more complex. This article will demonstrate one way to abstract much of the logic from this repetitive task. The implementation of

XML's surface-level simplicity hides a deceptively complex beast. At first glance, creating an XML document does not take a lot of effort. Create some tags, ensure they are well-formed, and that's it. Throw in a DTD or Schema and now there are a set of rules against which the document

Are you just beginning to try to figure out how XML and content management can help you wrestle with your publishing problems? Are you confused by all the jargon and acronyms that the experts are throwing around? Do you wish that someone would clear it all up for you? If so, then this

Web services represent an evolution of the original Web because the Web becomes accessible by any program and not just a browser. The Web is no longer just a front end infrastructure for an often complex Web enabled-application. An existing Web site can be retrofitted to publish a Web

A new CMS, for financial prospectus automation, is being introduced by Command Financial Press that uses IXIASOFT's native XML database, TEXTML Server.

The Social Security Administration is launching a pilot program that uses XML-based technology to make the SSA more efficient. It has been estimated that by 2010, the number of disability claims will increase by nearly 50%, and the number of SSA employees will decrease.

FOXSports.com is using Sarvega's XML accelerator to transmit dynamic content on MSN. Using the accelerator allows FOXSports to keep their existing infrastructure, while gaining the benefits Sarvega's product brings.

In an attempt to bring XML Web services to a larger audience, Sarvega and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies have created the Advanced XML Security Lab.