Paul Krill

Web services integration technology remains subject to a plethora of standardization efforts and competing interests, panelists noted during the Web Services Edge 2003 West conference here recently.

The innovation rate, complexity, and current economic model associated with Web services came under attack this week.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco last month preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.

Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) this week announced plans to develop a global Web services framework to define a methodology for a broad-based, multiplatform and vendor-neutral implementation.

Researchers at Sun Microsystems Inc. are working on an initiative called Fast Web Services, intended to identify and solve performance problems in existing Web services standards implementations.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco Tuesday preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday announced availability of a preliminary, "qualification" release of Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 source code for J2EE licensees.

Upgrading to Oracle Corp.'s grid-based software actually can save money by providing for system uniformity, an Oracle official stressed during a panel session at the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco last week.