Google and Microsoft are wooing college and university IT departments into outsourcing not just student e-mail but customized, Web-based productivity applications and calendaring.
You can go with a complete open-source SOA stack, you can mix and match various open-source SOA products from different vendors -- or you can mix and match both commercial and open-source products. Here are some tips to get you started.
Along with the benefits of an interconnected system come spiraling costs if the system runs out of control. When undertaking SOA, testing is a necessary form of risk-management -- and Matthew Heusser describes how to do it well.
The software developer's kit includes a compiler for a new language, a GUI runtime with a new graphics and animation stack, utilities for graphic designers and more.
Late Friday night Google solved the third Gmail outage of the past two weeks, but questions remain about the stability of the Webmail service, which is affecting the Google Apps hosted software suite.
When Gmail crashed on Monday, affecting many organizations that depend on it for work e-mail via the Google Apps suite, widespread gnashing of teeth ensued.
Social networking growth is beginning to level off in North America, but other regions of the world are just starting to jump on the bandwagon. Led by Facebook, many social networking sites are still seeing healthy growth in 2008.
Google plans to aggressively add new applications and capabilities to its Web-hosted Apps software suite for businesses, and will likely leave the price unchanged as it builds out the service, a company official said Tuesday.
It seems that every decade or so I get the opportunity to write an article on IT déjà vu. This time around, the topic is cloud computing, which is the latest IT buzz word.
SiteMeter's widget for tracking visits to Web sites went haywire on Friday and rendered many pages unviewable via Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Originally positioned as a Web-based service for synchronizing files and data folders across different devices, Microsoft's Live Mesh is poised to emerge as a cloud-based development environment at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October.
If you've spent much time on the Web, you understand that a large grain of salt is required when searching for information. Some sites post "facts" without the proper research or get information from questionable sources. While you may understand this, your child likely doesn't. And this can be a problem for kids doing research for their homework and class projects. Wouldn't it be great if someone took the time to vet the informational Web sites children are likely to use?
