As we've noted elsewhere in this issue of the Cutter IT Journal, embedded systems and wireless information devices (WIDs) are likely to become the next major wave of technology.

It's hard to pick up a business magazine or IT trade journal without being bombarded by articles on e-business, e-commerce, e-this, and e-that. It's not only the hot new thing, it seems to be the only thing that organizations are focusing on these days.

It's hard to pick up a business magazine or IT trade journal without being bombarded by articles on e-business, e-commerce, e-this, and e-that. It's not only the hot new thing, it seems to be the only thing that organizations are focusing on these days.

For at least a decade, surveys have consistently reported that the very top priority for CIOs and senior managers is that of aligning IT with the business.

For at least a decade, surveys have consistently reported that the very top priority for CIOs and senior managers is that of aligning IT with the business.

In discussions of the disruptive impact of the Internet on established business, the question is often asked, "Well, what about the railroads?" The implication is that the railroads apparently failed either to anticipate or to embrace the impact on transportation that airlines would ultimately have, much of that impact at the expense of the railroads.

As most readers know, Sun has moved away from supporting the Java language, as such, and prefers to create packages that include not only the Java Virtual Machine (Interpreter) and the basic classes to support the Java language, but also classes to support a wide variety of interface and data access functions, Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) and EJB components, applets, servlets, and IIOP, as well as a variety of utilit

You've seen it -- workshop attendance has been shrinking, as has class length. The likelihood that the participants that showed up at the start will be there when the evaluations are passed out is slim to none. This year, if you're a training manager, you had to cancel an increasing number of classes that are on your schedule.

You've seen it -- workshop attendance has been shrinking, as has class length.

You've seen it -- workshop attendance has been shrinking, as has class length.

There are enormous pressures being exerted on the software development world to produce more software faster.

There are enormous pressures being exerted on the software development world to produce more software faster.

There has been substantial but patchy take-up of software process improvement (SPI) throughout the last decade.

In early 1999 there was quite a bit of discussion about a new technology called the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). SOAP was developed by a group of people closely associated with Microsoft, and it quickly received Microsoft's blessing. SOAP is not an official part of Microsoft's Distributed Network Architecture (DNA 2000), COM+, or Windows 2000.

After presenting a seminar on software inspections at a client site recently, I asked the development manager about his plans for implementing these practices in his group. He confessed a reluctance to set ambitious expectations for his team.

After presenting a seminar on software inspections at a client site recently, I asked the development manager about his plans for implementing these practices in his group. He confessed a reluctance to set ambitious expectations for his team.

After presenting a seminar on software inspections at a client site recently, I asked the development manager about his plans for implementing these practices in his group.

After presenting a seminar on software inspections at a client site recently, I asked the development manager about his plans for implementing these practices in his group.