Stories about: Eworld

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The Mac at 25: Successes, regrets, Apple's had a few 20 January, 2009 08:40

Remember the adage, "Don't trust anyone over 30"? Putting aside the fact that you're likely well past that age if you recognize the line, if you live by it, you may view 32-year-old Apple with a gimlet eye. But the Macintosh itself -- which will hit the 25-year mark on January 24 -- is still something we can trust.
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Tales from the crypt: Our first computers 26 March, 2008 08:20

Quick -- what was the first personal computer you ever owned? You don't have to think about it for even a second, do you? No matter how many machines you've had over the years, you always remember your first -- usually with great fondness.
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GUI gets a makeover 28 September, 2006 10:00

The graphical user interface -- keyboard, mouse, windowing system -- has dominated personal computing for the past 20 years. GUIs today represent the culmination of innovative work at organizations ranging from Xerox PARC in the '70s to Apple Computer in the '80s. But it was Microsoft that popularized it for mainstream business computing in the '90s. Today, Windows and the Office productivity suite have become the GUI standard-bearers for the business desktop.
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Sun dancing SOA tune with Project Disco 30 June, 2004 08:35

Sun Microsystems at the 2004 JavaOne conference this week is previewing prototype tools technology, code-named Project Disco, for visually developing Web services that would be used in service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
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Opinion: May the best tech win 03 June, 2004 12:02

The best technology doesn't always win. Blame poor marketing, bad timing, or just plain dumb luck, but the dustbins of history are lined with examples of superior technologies that failed to capture market share. Everyone mentions Betamax, which had its clock cleaned by VHS. But I prefer to cite personal favorite XyWrite, a fast, flexible app from the late '80s that made competing word processors look like manual typewriters. Ditto the 64-bit DEC Alpha, which had the chops but not the marketing muscle needed to win.
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BEA chief talks SOAs, open source 28 May, 2004 10:00

BEA Systems held its yearly eWorld user conference in San Francisco this week and its message to customers echoed loud and clear from virtually every banner and every marketing brochure: "Deploy SOA. Now."
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BEA lays out plans for Diablo application server 28 May, 2004 08:09

BEA Systems aims to help customers reduce their application downtime and cut the cost of integration projects with the next major release of its WebLogic Server software, due in the first half of next year, officials said this week.
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BEA rethinks the browser for mobile workers 27 May, 2004 08:46

BEA Systems showed off a prototype technology Wednesday that aims to extend the familiar Web browser and make it a more useful tool for people working on a laptop or handheld computer with only occasional Internet connectivity.
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BEA's Quicksilver expected in 2005 26 May, 2004 14:22

BEA Systems will distribute an early test version of Quicksilver, a messaging product designed to help customers deploy a services oriented architecture (SOA), with the next major release of its WebLogic server software, company officials said Tuesday.
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BEA details Liquid Computing plan 26 May, 2004 07:40

Declaring an end to the era of integration as it has been known, BEA Systems Chairman, CEO, and Founder Alfred Chuang at the BEA eWorld 2004 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday rolled out the company's "Liquid Computing" vision for building SOAs (service-oriented architectures) that are responsive to rapid changes in IT needs.
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BEA tries open-source tack with Workshop Java tool 20 May, 2004 08:00

BEA Systems plans to release the source code for part of its WebLogic Workshop Java development environment, a move that it hopes will spur wider use of the product and eventually steer more customers toward its WebLogic family of Java server software, the company said Wednesday.