Managed Services & Outsourcing

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), Novell Inc. and IBM Corp. are working to open source Xforms 1.0, a W3C standard for creating Web forms using Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Northern Ontarians are used to traveling long distances to see medical specialists but high-speed Internet connections are now bringing doctors north

Java has struggled with the perception of being less productive and more complex than Microsoft technologies

At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to cite one telling example, inspection findings and other data now are reported in a matter of seconds rather than days or weeks. Trends, potential problems and correlations are spotted quickly, enabling the agency to make more efficient use of time and resources.

IBM Corp. is rolling out modeling software that it boasts can deliver a bird's-eye view of complex business processes and help boost their execution.

Microsoft Corp.'s Office System group is making available free of charge two "Web Part" toolkits and a Web services toolkit to boost integration of the company's SharePoint Portal Server 2003 package and SharePoint Services sites with applications from vendors such as SAP.

Macromedia Inc. is readying a multifaceted upgrade to its ColdFusion Web development tool, code-named "Blackstone," that will boost reporting capabilities while also enabling new clients such as IM systems to participate in application workflows.

Last week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Novell Inc. released the latest version of its enterprise Linux product, SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, which now includes the 2.6 Linux kernel.