With financial markets in turmoil, the typical and atypical election-time political gyrations taking place in the US, and continuing discussions of the year-2000 crisis, what better time is there to look at the change in the IT

There's a pretty good chance that your applications portfolio is not what it should be. It probably consists of a hodgepodge of applications developed during the past 20 years or so that require some form of life support to exist.

There's a pretty good chance that your applications portfolio is not what it should be. It's probably got a hodge-podge of applications developed over the past 20 years or so that require some form of life support to exist! You've probably got applications that are host-based, some client-server applications, and some Internet applications that are driving your e-business strategy.

As everyone in the software community certainly knows, we live in times of very rapid change. In the early 1990s, I complained about the early OO methodologies and suggested that they were often just warmed-over, structured methodologies.

Everyone will tell you that meta data is the key to unlocking the potential of your data warehouse.

The rapid acceleration of technical innovation over the Internet is revolutionizing the way we do business.

The growing excitement about Java in corporate IT departments has been closely followed by a growing concern about its performance.

This report is the first in a series that will examine how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from "traditional computing" to "component computing." In our view, this is one of the most critical transitions most organizations will make in the next decade, and it involves much more than the direct insertion of component-based tools, techniques, and middleware into the t

The accompanying report is the first in a series that will examine how companies should approach their enterprise wide transition from "traditional computing" to "component computing." In our view, this is one of the most critical transitions most organizations will make in the next decade.

In the August and September 1998 issues of DMS, I provided a detailed listing of data mining products and analyzed the state of the market. In response, a number of vendors have contacted me with updates regarding their companies and products. Therefore, I've decided to provide a summary here of some of the more important recent developments.

The rapid acceleration of technical innovation over the Internet is revolutionizing the way we do business. Banks, consumers, and merchants are being driven to this new medium to reduce the time and cost of performing financial and merchant transactions. This phenomenon is known as electronic commerce.

The IBM SanFrancisco Application Business Components have been commercially available for over a year, with the third release arriving in the hands of developers in the fourth quarter of 1998. When you first attempt to understand exactly what the product offers, it is easy to get carried away with the technology and infrastructure that SanFrancisco delivers using the Java language.

Copyright 1998 Object International, Inc. All rights reserved.

The growing excitement about Java in corporate IT departments has been closely followed by a growing concern about its performance. While numerous trade seminars, presentations, and articles have explored Java performance, very few have focused on real-world IT systems.

"Houston, we have a problem." With these immortal words, the Apollo 13 crew first alerted the Mission Control Center that their flight was starting to experience abnormal conditions.

Copyright 1998 by Don Estes. Adapted rom "PC-Based Testing of Mainframe Applications," Year 2000 Journal (October-November 1998).

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