<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</title><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:32:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/108/adj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET developers are bored with traditional books that outline concepts in a lengthy way. These books are good if you like to learn the features in a detailed manner. However, by the time the book is read, a new version will be released. Hence, many learners including myself prefer short and succinct books that not only explain the topics in a user-friendly way, but also enable the reader to learn the concepts of the current technology before a new version is released.]]></description></item><item><title>Open-Xchange to Deliver Collaboration Solution Integrated With Parallels Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/569215.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/569215.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/569215_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Open-Xchange and Parallels are integrating Open-Xchange open source email and collaboration software with Parallels technology to deliver a cost-effective, enterprise-class alternative to commercial email and collaboration products at a competitive price. The products, which will be fully integrated with Parallels Automation solutions, will be offered to end-users via hosting and service providers.]]></description></item><item><title>Service Oriented Architecture: Making the Leap</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565935.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565935.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565935_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to be this year's hot buzzword, rather than a well-defined, meaningful and valuable part of the Enterprise Architecture landscape. Before the term fades away completely, perhaps we should agree what's valuable about the move to SOA and how to make the leap, and make the leap valuable. OMG's SOA Consortium is making great strides in defining SOA to be a valuable business strategy for business agility, taking advantage of Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management and other concepts; and the OMG itself is making headway on modeling standards for services (as opposed to yet another set of standards for moving bits around wires).]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualizing End Points - A Closer Look at This Game Changing Architecture</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566031.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566031.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566031_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The need for a way to more effectively manage and reduce the complexity of end points has never been greater. While virtualization technologies offer a breakthrough approach to reduce the complexities of managing end points, there are different ways organizations are leveraging this technology. This session discusses the distinct differences between how organizations are approaching virtualizing end points and the benefits each implementation offers for gaining the performance, security and control needed to manage end points for today's dispersed organizations.]]></description></item><item><title>Maximize Your Virtualization Payoff: There&apos;s More Than You Think</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565996.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565996.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565996_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Businesses that virtualize can increase efficiency and reduce costs by eliminating low-performance/low-efficiency servers. Less well-known, but equally important, is the parallel advantage of streamlining the legacy power and cooling systems that support virtualized environments. This presentation will discuss how new power and cooling technologies and effective data center planning and design are saving additional electrical costs, sometimes even more than the original savings from virtualization. Learn how to help manage the complexities of a virtualized environment by answering the not-so-obvious questions 'Where should I locate my next server?' and 'Where should I migrate my applications to maximize efficiency?']]></description></item><item><title>Transforming the Enterprise: Where Virtualization Meets Automation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566030.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566030.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566030_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization is the future of IT management, but what exactly does that mean to your organization? CIOs around the world recognize that virtualization could be the answer to combating skyrocketing costs associated with managing their IT infrastructure; however, many are still left wondering how to implement a long-term, sustainable virtualization strategy. In this session, BMC Software CTO, Tom Bishop, will explain how IT organizations can realize the full value of virtualization through aligning IT with business priorities and automating IT processes.]]></description></item><item><title>mobilkom austria group Speeds Entry Into Emerging Markets Using TIBCO SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568426.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568426.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568426_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[TIBCO announced that mobilkom austria group (mag) set a new benchmark for the mobile phone sector, establishing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) covering Serbia and Macedonia in just six months using an enterprise service bus based on TIBCO software. The previously unheard-of timescales were made possible through the use of standardized functionality from back-office mag billing and CRM systems, located in different parts of Europe, that were reused for the new MVNOs.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP and TechniData Release Solution for Achieving EU Chemical Regulation Compliance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568262.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568262.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/568262_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SAP and TechniData announced the availability of SAP REACH Compliance, a comprehensive software application for addressing complex tasks required by the European Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) legislation. The first REACH compliance deadline is pre- registration, which runs from June 1, 2008 to November 30, 2008. The remaining three REACH deadlines will occur in 2010, 2013 and 2018, respectively.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA and the Internet: An Architectural View</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565887.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565887.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565887_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and how they connect with the Enterprise. The emerging patterns of architecture can enable the savvy architect to empower their IT to embrace an accelerating vision of the network economy.]]></description></item><item><title>Implementing a Highly Distributed, Real-time Data-critical SOA Application</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565857.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565857.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565857_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful semantics embedded in data are often inadequately considered when architecting and implementing large scale real-time SOA applications. This talk will introduce several real-time data-centric technologies that specifically address the challenges of wide-scale, real-time data distribution, as well as how these technologies seamlessly integrate into existing SOA frameworks. Examples will be drawn from military and aerospace applications that are already seeing success with real-time, highly distributed SOA applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Software AG Webinar: Business Infrastructure Software How SOA Helps Accelerate Success with BPM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567202_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains in productivity, implementation and cost savings.]]></description></item><item><title>Embotics Identifies High Costs Associated with Virtual Sprawl</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/567142_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Embotics introduced a whitepaper describing the costs associated with virtual sprawl and suggestions on estimating the cost of sprawl in an enterprise environment. The nature of virtualization frequently leads to the misconception that virtual machines (VMs) have no real associated costs, despite the high costs associated with infrastructure, management, software and administration. The truth is that VMs have real costs similar to physical servers; and these costs increase with virtual sprawl. The costs of virtual sprawl take up budget, time and eventually require the purchase of more physical servers than needed. This can frequently negate the company?s return on investment which is the greatest benefit of virtualization.]]></description></item><item><title>Aptec Becomes Authorized Distributor of VMware Virtualization Solutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/566619_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Aptec Distribution has been appointed the authorized distributor for VMware in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Bahaa Salah, Managing Director for Aptec Distribution, said, 'VMware is a strategic partnership for us, helping us build our one-stop-shop concept by offering virtualization solutions to our channel partners so that they, in turn, can offer complete turnkey solutions including support and services to their customers. VMware virtualization today has become a standard platform for companies of all sizes. VMware offers the leading and proven products to enable customers to reduce capital and operating expenses; ensure business continuity, strengthen security and lower carbon emissions.']]></description></item><item><title>IBM Unveils Insurance Operations of the Future Powered By SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/565543_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core processes, such as claims and policy processing, more efficiently. Once implemented insurance companies will be able to automate and optimize their business tasks; allowing employees to focus more attention on customer-facing matters.]]></description></item><item><title>Exclusive Q&amp;A with Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Appcelerator</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499357_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. To date Appcelerator has seen the strongest amount of interest from Java and PHP developers, Haynie notes, but he says the company has continued to see steady growth across Ruby, Python, Perl and .NET programmers as well.]]></description></item><item><title>How To Launch a Successful Technology Start-Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/479616_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else. I only wish that I had known all this before I got started.']]></description></item><item><title>Federal Circuit Hears Case That Could Stem Software Patents</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563106_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit en banc heard oral arguments Thursday in the Bilski case, which, if their honors get to feeling radical and rule broadly, could outlaw not only business methods patents in the United States but - by extension - void all existing software patents and patent applications. It could take the court maybe nine months and into a new administration to decide.]]></description></item><item><title>Survey Shows Links Between Server Virtualization and Networked Storage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564196_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Seanodes released the results of a third-party survey of IT professionals that shows that the transition from direct attached storage to networked storage is dictated by needs that come with server virtualization, such as VM migration, elevating costs and complexity, while taxing performance and management. The survey, with respondents including network and systems administrators and other IT personnel from organizations of all sizes, sheds light on how virtualized infrastructures raise the levels of stress and demand on networked storage, creating a tenuous situation of economic sustainability against the high costs of improved storage performance.]]></description></item><item><title>3PAR Integrates With VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564195_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[3PAR announced the 3PAR Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager. This software enables 3PAR Remote Copy, 3PAR's remote data replication software for 3PAR InServ Storage Servers, and VMware Site Recovery Manager, a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation, to provide end-to-end disaster recovery for utility computing. VMware Site Recovery Manager is part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter.]]></description></item><item><title>FalconStor Develops Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564124_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[FalconStor announced FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with implementing disaster recovery.]]></description></item><item><title>ParAccel Announces OEM Relationship with IBM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564249_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with seamless and real-time updates from heterogeneous databases, including IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft's SQL Server. Customers can use this ability to create high performance operational data stores and tactical analytic applications such as operational BI.]]></description></item><item><title>VMware Stage Manager Virtualization Gets Applications Into Production Faster and More Reliably</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563927_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware announced that VMware Stage Manager, a product for accelerating and automating the delivery of applications from staging to production, is now available for order. Joining VMware's suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, VMware Stage Manager automates the process of transitioning application environments in the virtual datacenter through the stages of the release process - from integration to testing to staging and to user acceptance - before being released into production. Now, instead of having to keep track of multiple instances of configurations throughout these stages, IT managers using VMware Stage Manager can automate the application release process so changes and updates are automatically managed and controlled. This simplifies management, minimizes errors, and speeds application delivery.]]></description></item><item><title>Premiere Global Opens New Markets With FioranoMQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563705_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fiorano Software announced that Premiere Global Services, a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions chose FioranoMQ to enhances its e-mail marketing product lines with higher response rates, instant consumer actions and direct results tracking.]]></description></item><item><title>Xsigo Expands Virtualization Channel Relationships</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563792_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xsigo Systems announced that it has added two new channel partners in the United States to distribute its I/O virtualization technology to enterprise customers. By using Xsigo's technology, it is estimated that users can lower their server-related operating expenses by up to 80%, cut capital costs by 50%, and use 70% less cabling -- resulting in 100x faster server management.]]></description></item><item><title>JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564123_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June 2008.  As the interpreted version of JavaFX was the prototype for the compiled version, the javafx.ui classes are the prototype for the javafx.gui classes that were shown at JavaOne and will be released in the SDK.  These javafx.gui libraries will have a streamlined, faster performing API, as well as support for multimedia. In June, JavaFX will have turned a significant corner, out of the prototype stage and becoming more mature.]]></description></item><item><title>WaveMaker Introduces Visual AJAX for Mac</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 03:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550350_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[WaveMaker announced the release of Visual AJAX Studio version 3.2. The new version introduces a beta installer for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and full support for the Safari Browser, bringing WaveMaker's drag-and-drop Java development to the Mac.]]></description></item><item><title>Real-Time Kaazing Solution and Sun&apos;s Glassfish Forge RIA Alliance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562675.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562675.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562675_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Kaazing Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced an alliance to deliver the scalable and advanced real-time Web 2.0 platform. The integration between Kaazing's real-time Rich Internet Application (RIA) solution, Enterprise Comet, and Sun Microsystems' open source Java EE application server, Glassfish, enables customers to create and deploy scalable mission-critical real-time solutions such as trading systems, betting and gambling applications, and interactive sports and news broadcasts, to the Web.]]></description></item><item><title>Curl Announces Support for Ubuntu for Enterprise RIA Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543957.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543957.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/543957_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Curl announced it has released the availability of an Ubuntu Installer for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. Curl is a Rich Internet Application platform that competes with Adobe AIR/Flex, Silverlight, and Ajax. Curl has been shipping with Linux support for RedHat 9, SusE 9, and Turbolinux 10 and 11. Ubuntu is the latest Linux platform Curl 6.0 supports. Curl 6.0 also supports Microsoft Windows (XP, and Vista) as well as a beta version for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel).]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Shows How JavaFX Creates Rich Internet Applications at JavaOne</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561677.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561677.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/561677_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Rich Green, executive vice president of Software at Sun, outlined in his keynote presentation at JavaOne in San Francisco a roadmap for the JavaFX family of products that includes a high performance declarative scripting language, JavaFX Script - created for Web scripters, designers and developers to quickly build and deliver the next generation of RIAs for desktop, mobile, TV and other consumer devices.]]></description></item><item><title>New Synchronization Features in eValid Support AJAX Application Testing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563026.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563026.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/563026_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Software Research has announced the availability of major new specialized commands in its Patented eValid Website Test & Analysis Suite. eValid has introduced a set of AJAX Playback Synchronization on DOM Element commands that provide direct control of test script playback synchronization by interaction with the current DOM of an AJAX page. This new eValid capability allows testers to address AJAX applications -- which by nature are 'asynchronous' -- in a reliable way. Once the playback synchronization is determined, eValid test scripts play back reliably, independent of how long the internal AJAX operations require.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Skyway Software Announces RIA Developer Contest</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/562838_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway Community.' With Skyway Builder CE, Java developers get an open source Eclipse-based plugin that offers a seamless blend of coding and modeling for delivering RIAs and Web Services in Spring. Unlike any other modeling tool, Skyway Builder CE provides comprehensive modeling capabilities at four distinct application layers:]]></description></item><item><title>Why Is an Enterprise RIA Platform Different?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507885_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Why is an Enterprise RIA Platform different? Simple: it must handle the demands of enterprise class applications. Enterprise applications routinely require interaction with very large data sets. This means that a web application must be optimized to deliver high response times even when data sets approach 100,000+ records.]]></description></item><item><title>Financial Services Companies Reduce Power Consumption with &quot;Green&quot; Virtualization Storage from Compellent</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559504_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Compellent announced that two of its financial services customers, Ares Management and Credit Union of Colorado, have reduced the physical and carbon footprint of their data centers, lowering the overall cost of ownership of their technology infrastructure. The efficient Compellent SAN has enabled both companies to measurably decrease hardware expenditures and the associated energy consumption.]]></description></item><item><title>Belgacom Selects FortiGate-5000 Systems for Virtualization Capabilities</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559505_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fortinet announced that Belgacom has selected Fortinet's consolidated network security solutions as the cornerstone of its 'Integrated Security Services,' part of 'Belgacom Explore.' Fortinet's FortiGate-5000 carrier-class systems along with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, two sophisticated management, logging and reporting tools, as well as Fortinet's FortiGuard Subscription Services will fuel Belgacom's launched managed security service.]]></description></item><item><title>Boot Barn Selects Epicor Retail SaaS Solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559107_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Epicor announced Boot Barn has selected the Epicor Retail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to streamline its retail operations and support its long-term growth plans. Boot Barn was one of four Retail SaaS deals Epicor signed during the first quarter of 2008. To support its current growth strategy, Boot Barn sought an end-to-end fully integrated, retail solution to replace existing disparate systems and in doing so, eliminating the manual processes required to integrate and share data among these systems. To this end, Boot Barn chose the Epicor Retail SaaS solution over a number of competitors to provide the infrastructure and retail best practices to support its strategic growth.]]></description></item><item><title>A Look at Some Heavy Hitters and Newcomers in the RIA Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/540504_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the world of Rich Internet Applications, there is no shortage of technology choices to compose a user interface. But what tools will give us the best bang for our buck? Here is a look at some heavy hitters and newcomers in the RIA market, including: HTML & AJAX, Rails and Grails, Flex, Silverlight, Curl, GWT, OpenLaszlo, and Appcelerator.]]></description></item><item><title>Beyond AJAX to the Rich Internet Application &amp; Rich Interactive Experience Era</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490851_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.]]></description></item><item><title>Nitobi Uprades AJAX Component Suite with Safari Support</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553294_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nitobi enhanced its AJAX component suite with the release of Complete UI Q2 2008. This release strengthens the popular AJAX development tools with Safari 3 support, a new hierarchical grid component, a variety of new themes, and multi-component Dreamweaver extensions that make use-cases like master-detail grids even easier.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - ILOG Targets RIA Development on .NET Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553185_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ILOG announced that its latest graphics toolkits for the .NET platform are aimed at helping Microsoft developers create rich internet applications (RIA), specifically interactive and visually-rich diagrams and Gantt charts. ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG's graphics toolkits for creating diagrams and Gantt charts for the .NET platform, now support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and ASP.NET AJAX for RIA development.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX E-mail Client Integrates Into Web 2.0 Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/553295_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Zapatec introduced the Zapatec AJAX E-mail Client, the second in a series of self-contained modules designed for integration into Web 2.0 applications. Zapatec's AJAX E-mail Client enables developers to add needed web-based e-mail functionality to their applications, freeing them to focus on their core business.]]></description></item><item><title>Forrester Turns Its Back On AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/552382_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I know, it's not nice and I should behave as if it's not that important to me, but I can't. During the last two and a half years I've been writing, openly speaking, whistle-blowing, and whispering that AJAX is a wrong way to go for developing rich Internet application. But 99% of the software developers were singing hosannas to AJAX. Forrester was selling this 7-page report for $379, while I've written dozens of pages for free. But who am I!  Forrester said that AJAX does your body good. The author of that report has published yet another article explaining when it makes sense to use  AJAX. But it seems that Forrester is turning 180 degrees now.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Who Will Win the Next Battle for the Desktop?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548350_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The computer desktop today is what the television was to people in the 1980s. It's the single most important channel for consumer entertainment and information. The computer desktop - as was the case with newspapers before there was radio and radio before there was television - has become the high ground from which empires are built.]]></description></item><item><title>Catalyst Resources and Backbase Will Do AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/550051_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Catalyst Resources and Backbase announced an alliance to provide an end-to-end design and development solution for rich Customer Engagement and Enterprise AJAX applications. AJAX, already the technology of choice for rapid development and deployment of Rich Internet Applications, is being adopted at a rapid pace by small and medium size businesses as well as large enterprises. But companies face a number of hurtles as they try to make this RIA transition. While it is easy to add in a few flashy widgets to a webpage, it requires a different level of expertise to enhance user experience with measurable business value and develop code that is scalable, high performance, and easily maintained.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Curl Launches Adobe AIR Competitor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548226_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl applications accessed via a browser as well as directly from the desktop. Curl Nitro is the only platform for both traditional RIA and Desktop RIA that provides enterprise-level security, high performance and support for large data sets.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Backbase Introduces Customer Engagement 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/548676_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Backbase introduced Customer Engagement 2.0, rich applications that help businesses make stronger, more profitable customer connections. The new application suite takes advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to ease and expand customer relationships. Backbase Customer Engagement 2.0 applications are built on top an Enterprise AJAX framework and are fully based on open AJAX industry standards.]]></description></item><item><title>Good News for AJAX &amp;ndash; The Browser Wars Are Back!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547209_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After years of dominance by a single browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), and few advances within IE, the world has changed. There is now healthy competition among multiple browsers over standards compliance, AJAX features, AJAX performance and trustworthy computing. The competition is reaching beyond the desktop to include the emerging world of mobile browsing. This healthy competition will result in important new capabilities within AJAX toolkits and will help accelerate the adoption of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX and Open Source Communities Must &quot;Liberate&quot; the HTML Web from the Unweb</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web development and customer expectations have far outstripped the table management capabilities of HTML. The web needs to evolve to support building the Rich Internet Applications that people want to use. At the same time, web tools need to evolve to be able to handle the increasing complexity of building these apps. Is the only solution to improve the grid to break HTML by going to a proprietary solution like Silverlight? It is up to the AJAX and open source communities to 'liberate' the HTML web from the Unweb.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Adobe Flex 4 Is Shaping Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/544517_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe has published their first plan of what should be included in Flex 4 that is scheduled to release next year. Since Flex is an open source product, you have a say in this too. Obviously, there's a hope that upcoming Thermo release will bring together developers and designers. I'm cautiously optimistic here. It's great that a  designer's tool will automatically generate MXML. A developer will pick it up and re-factor. But will the tool be smart enough to reverse-engineer the re-factored code and present it back in a visual form to the designer for further work? That is a million dollars question.]]></description></item><item><title>Cynergy Selected by Microsoft for Global Agency Initiative</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546582_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Cynergy Systems announced it has been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Microsoft Global Agency Initiative. This invitation-only initiative has resulted in a group of the top 20 interactive agencies that Microsoft recommends to its customers. Cynergy has developed a number of applications utilizing Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation for customers. The company was also the national winner at last month's PhizzPop Design Challenge, a contest hosted by Microsoft where more than 30 Web design and development firms competed to develop the best rich Internet applications using Microsoft Silverlight.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX Push Comes of Age</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809.htm</guid><link>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/546809_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AJAX Push has always been an integral capability of the ICEfaces framework, but for the longest time it was not a primary consideration of the average technology evaluator. We always found this surprising, because the impact that push can have on a web application is far more profound than AJAX's primary claim to fame - eliminating the full page refresh. In recent months, however, we have seen a marked change in demand for push technology within the ICEfaces community, and we are now involved with a large number of projects where AJAX Push is front and center on the requirements list. So when people are evaluating their options for achieving web-based push, what makes them decide on ICEfaces?]]></description></item></channel></rss>