Microsoft Corp. on Friday released the first public beta of a product that should allow developers to build and manage reports using its SQL Server 2000 database. It also disclosed pricing for the product and pegged it for release by the end of the year.
BEA Systems Inc. on Monday introduced a technology called XMLBeans, which is designed to improve developer productivity by eliminating challenges to incorporating XML data into Java.
Wasting little time after the announcement of a Web security specification it is co-developing with Microsoft and VeriSign, IBM said it is adding two new security features into the 3.1 version of its Web Services Toolkit.
Some companies keep databases containing all the personal information they can get about certain people. Other companies keep databases with all the data there is about all people.