submitted by: rdg, on Nov 7th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
How does a technology-driven company with massive performance and scalability requirements -- and incredibly varied customer and supplier bases -- transition to SOA? For Sabre Holdings, the answer was a lot of in-house development and a complex interweaving of the old and new.
tags: enterprise
Sabre's customer-driven SOA
Unisys throws weight behind 'mature' Linux
submitted by: rdg, on Nov 7th, 2005 [news.zdnet.com]
Enterprise services provider sees open source as a "key area" for growth, as it tries to make Linux more attractive to large companies.
EnterpriseDB upgrades open-source database
submitted by: rdg, on Nov 2nd, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
Upgrade comes with newer code base and JasperReports open-source reporting tool. EnterpriseDB has released an upgrade to its open-source database that comes with a newer code base and an open-source reporting tool called JasperReports, the company said this week.
Data hubs target top line growth
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 31st, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
With data integration and master data hubs now seen as a high-level enterprise investment, enterprise software vendors are extending their feature set to include both technologies.
Unleash the power of virtualization in your enterprise
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 29th, 2005 [techrepublic.com.com]
Virtualization is a powerful tool that allows developers and IT professionals to streamline software development, testing, and deployment within their enterprise. With virtualization software you can run multiple x86 operating systems on a single computer. This gives you the ability to run Windows, Linux, or both on a single machine without having to re-boot each time you need to change operating systems. In this download, we will provide you with an overview of how you can use virtual technology to research operating systems or the implications of new applications.
Re-engineering life interruptions
submitted by: rdg, on Oct 27th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
As Web services automate the work performed by millions of workers, where will these folks go next? Not to worry. People are the exception handlers in all automated workflows, and intelligence and judgment won’t be automated anytime soon. What does worry me, though, is how we’ll connect people and services. Managing that scarcest of resources, our attention, is a huge challenge.
Fast enterprise search gets personal
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 26th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
Fast Search & Transfer has joined the crowded desktop search arena with its release this week of the Fast Personal Search Platform (PSP).
SAP updates software for small businesses
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 24th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
SAP Monday released a new version of its Business One suite that features changes driven by feedback from its small-business customers.
Heroix explores new territory with Longitude
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 24th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
When it comes to deploying an enterprise-level systems management solution, one of the thorniest details is often maintenance of the ubiquitous data-collection agents. Depending on the size of the organization, maintaining the agent-related components of the enterprise software stack can become a real burden, especially when you factor in the need for revision testing -- to weed out bugs or incompatibilities with the agent processes.
MySQL 5.0 ships
submitted by: gomxgom, on Oct 24th, 2005 [www.infoworld.com]
MySQL has released the production version of its open-source database upgrade, MySQL 5.0, the company announced on Monday.
