Tag: application

  • Sun Adds Application Switching to Its Bag of Tricks

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving into the application switch market with its announcement Monday of the Sun Secure Application Switch N2000 Series. The N2000 application switch family is based on technology acquired from Nauticus Networks in January 2004. It is designed to improve system availability, performance and security for distributed network applications. Like all application… Read more

  • So Now Will You Install SP2?

    So Now Will You Install SP2?

    Larry Seltzer

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    Sometimes I just can’t believe people’s lack of perspective, and the best current example is the resistance to adopting Windows XP Service Pack 2. For a very long, long time now, long before SP2 was released, it’s been known that as a direct result of solving security problems in Windows it would cause application problems.… Read more

  • SAP, HP Team on ERP for SMBs

    SAP, HP Team on ERP for SMBs

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Small and midsize businesses that are looking for an ERP solution but aren’t able to handle such things as cost and implementation have a new solution from SAP America Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to consider. SAP, of Newtown Square, Pa., and HP teamed last week to announce a hosted enterprise resource planning bundled service tailored… Read more

  • Partners, Rivals Fall in Line with Sun’s J2EE 1.4

    Partners, Rivals Fall in Line with Sun’s J2EE 1.4

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Sun Microsystems Inc. is sponsoring an event Monday to celebrate the adoption of J2EE 1.4, the latest version of Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition. Several partners—as well as competitors—joined Sun at the San Francisco event to announce compatibility with J2EE 1.4 or plans to support the specification, which became available last November. Five companies now… Read more

  • A Developer Looks at Panther

    A Developer Looks at Panther

    Peter Coffee

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    When application developers open the stark black box containing the four CDs of Apple Computer Inc.’s “Panther” OS, they’ll get more than the newly polished end-user experience of what’s already the world’s most widely used version of workstation Unix. That fourth CD contains Xcode 1.0, Apple’s integrated development workbench for AppleScript, Java, and native C/C++/Objective-C… Read more