In February 1998, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopted the eXtended Markup Language (XML) as a new Internet protocol. XML and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) are both subsets of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).

Is knowledge management the most recent silver-bullet fad? Of course it is! Will knowledge management be an enduring business initiative? Of course it will!

It's one thing to contemplate what will happen in the future in general terms and quite another to think about the future in terms of concrete events and specific developments.

Editor's Note: The key to successful knowledge-based system (KBS) development is modeling business knowledge and business logic in a manner that captures the nature of the domain.

The information presented in this section is the first of a multipart series summarizing the results of 1998 data collection that will appear in the 1999 Worldwide Benchmark

On a normal day, you'll hear all sorts of arguments for and against standardization. Some of the "crazies" think that chaos should prevail, that there's no need for desktops to look the same or for everyone to use the same databases. Others think that complete control is necessary, even to the point of removing the A drives from PCs.

The water is getting muddy -- the application delivery water that is. Actually, the water is more than muddy, it's turbulent. Turbulence, at least in river rafting, makes things exciting.

In the September 1998 issue of CDS, I reviewed Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) standard and discussed server-side, transaction-oriented component models in the context of EJB.

I recently got into a discussion about the future of distributed computing with an analyst who is well known for his pro-Microsoft orientation.

In 1997, the US ObjectWorld conference was destroyed by Comdex, Inc.

This past year, most of the focus in the computer press regarding database technology as it pertains to data warehousing has revolved around the latest releases of the major relational database players' products, with a whole lot of attention given to

Editor's Note: The key to successful knowledge-based system (KBS) development is modeling business knowledge and business logic in a manner that captures the nature of the domain.

The information presented in this section is the first of a multipart series summarizing the results of 1998 data collection that will appear in the 1999 Worldwide Benchmark

This report is the second in a series of four installments that examines how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from traditional computing to component computing.

This report is the second in a series of four installments that examines how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from traditional computing to component computing, a critical transition that most large organizations will make in the coming decade.

In this Executive Update, Senior Consultant Roger Sessions, one of Cutter Consortium's experts on middle-tier software systems, discusses how companies are faring in their quest to get component-oriented systems to work efficiently in a distributed environment.

This past year, most of the focus in the computer press regarding database technology as it pertains to data warehousing has revolved around the latest releases of the major relational database players' products, with a whole lot of attention given to industry leaders Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, among others.

IBM has introduced a new customer relationship management package targeted at small to medium-sized banks.