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The Google Web APIs service is a beta web program that enables developers to easily find and manipulate information on the web. Google Web APIs are for developers and researchers interested in using Google as a resource in their applications.

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Differences Between Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Editions

Migration doc

Rockford's article

Web Applications: URL Rewriting in ASP.NET (ASP.NET Technical Articles)

"BEA and IBM this week published an ill-conceived mongrel specification called BPELJ. Edwin Khodabakchian has done a great job of listing the technical shortcomings in a posting to his blog. I'm simply appalled at the defective thinking that is being used to promote this mongrel spec.
Its authors attempt to justify their poisonous cocktail of BPEL and Java by introducing their whitepaper with some sanctimonious twaddle about BPEL being geared towards "programming in the large," while the role of languages like Java is to perform "programming in the small.""

Small-minded orchestration

Open Source and Portals

• Its integration platform service-enables existing resources
• Its newly-acquired Fabric tool adds service assembly and management
• An SOA roadmap leads on to process orchestration and activity monitoring
• The aim is to future-proof the company's offering
• But it faces stiff competition in the SOA market

Hedging your bets on SOA

"Cape Clear offers free service-oriented architecture editor validated against standards and industry schema for WSDL."

"Architecture is what determines the size of a project, thus where the duration and cost of development can be controlled. System architecture controls the cost of hardware and most of the capital expenses associated with IT, but software architecture controls where the bulk of the labor and time are spent. Software architecture, combined with project management, is where the leadership has the best chance to turn a large project into a small project."

"Overhauling its online services for small businesses, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it will replace bCentral with a new Microsoft Small Business Center Web site."

"Members of the international standards consortium, OASIS, announced plans to define a generic, open framework for modeling and accessing stateful resources using Web services. The OASIS Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) Technical Committee will define a set of royalty-free, interoperable, and modular specifications that will allow the relationship between a Web service and its state to be modeled in an explicit, standard fashion."

"SAP has formalized its NetWeaver strategy, first announced last year, with the release of NetWeaver 2004, an integrated platform of existing applications that is also compatible with heterogeneous environments faced by typical enterprise customers."

"Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has been poised for its breakout since 1998. Now, after years of fits and starts, numerous enterprises have announced VoIP rollouts aimed at linking voice and data as well as increasing efficiency and lowering costs."

Technologies like smart cards that offer a different path to user authentication have been slow to catch on in widespread fashion. With the refinement of these alternatives, that could change.

Are passwords finally on the way out?

The End of Passwords

"The concept of modeling the real world has been so badly abused in the OO community, that I want to find the person who first coined the notion and flay him alive (not really)."

"Vendor-sponsored survey shows much higher adoption numbers than expected; regardless of state of uptake, grid is on the map"

"Toyota Financial Services is moving forward with a plan to update its e-business systems and IT approach to align with a new business strategy."

GartnerVoice

"Rumors have been going around for sometime now that Xbox 2 would have a showing of sorts at the upcoming Game Developers Conference. Today, with the conference only a couple weeks off, it seems that those rumors have been confirmed. According to a story run by Bloomberg (through Infoseek), word from Microsoft revealed that the system will have the first official information put forth on March 24th, 2004. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) runs from March 22nd to 26th in San Jose, California."

"Analysts at London-based broker Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein have downgraded SAP stock because of web services. They reiterated a "sell" rating on SAP AG (SAPG.F) today, citing a price target 10 percent below the current market price.

According to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's research note published this morning, one of the core markets for SAP in the long term is web services-based composite applications,reports online information site New Ratings. The analysts mention that new applications are likely to provide limited revenue growth opportunities for SAP in the long term, given that these applications need to be highly commoditized and standardized."

(from: Amazon commercializes RSS - Loosely Coupled weblog, Mar 5th 2004 10:28pm)

"According to a new study from Wintergreen Research, IBM's market share leads all vendors in the enterprise content management (ECM) application area.

The research, which encompasses the first three quarters of 2003, shows IBM with 20 percent share. From there, share breaks down as follows: Documentum, 14 percent; Open Text, 9 percent; Vignette, 7 percent; Hummingbird, 7 percent; Staffware, 6 percent; Interwoven, FileNet, Tower Technology, and Hyland, 4 percent each; Informatica, 3 percent; Microsoft, 2 percent; and the remainder split among other vendors."

"Microsoft's bet-the-company initiative turns 4 this year. Are developers happier? Has the Windows experience improved? We take stock of .Net's tools and technologies for a top-to-bottom evaluation"

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