========================================================= ----- PETER COFFEE'S ENTERPRISE IT ADVANTAGE ----- ========================================================= A weekly newsletter from eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee focused on application development and technologies at the cutting edge of enterprise-class computing.
========================================================= Sponsored by St. Bernard Turn Legal Liabilities into Legal Safeguards! If you think employees are only visiting business-related sites on the Internet, think again. Statistics show that 90% of all Internet surfing is done during business hours. Not only is your company losing productivity, you're also leaving yourself open to lawsuits for viewing objectionable Web content. Protect yourself today with iPrism, the reliable, easy-to-use web-filtering appliance from St. Bernard. Safeguard your business by downloading iPrism's free tools today! Click here for 5 Free Tools! http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135217-1 ========================================================= October 11, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= PETER COFFEE: Who Gets Through the 'Help Wanted' Door? EWEEK NEWS: 1. News: Third Parties Fill 'Longhorn' Void 2. News: Microsoft, Intel, Others Drive Web Services Management Spec 3. News: BEA, IBM Heat Up App Server Space 4. News: Kodak, Sun Settle Java Lawsuit 5. News: SAP Preps New NetWeaver Capabilities ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= Who Gets Through the 'Help Wanted' Door? Should Web services requests eliminate all but the very best? by Peter Coffee The folks at Google are getting a lot of attention lately with their in-your-face recruiting of the world's most competitive geeks. The company's billboards ask mathematical questions whose answers are URLs that lead to job-applicant Web sites; its pull-out Aptitude Tests appear in more than one of the magazines that I get at home. As CommerceNet Fellow Adam Rifkin has observed, Google had better hope for a vigorous response, because the company will need a lot of smart and hard-working people to live up to Web designer Jason Kottke's April prediction that the company will be "the biggest and most important company in the world in 5-8 years." That stems from a view of Google, not as mere search engine, but as a versatile services platform that's backed by huge amounts of exceptionally cost-effective computation: Kottke, in turn, points to Topix.net founder/CEO Rich Skrenta's April characterization of Google as "the world's biggest computer and most advanced operating system." Read the rest of Peter's column here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135220-1 ========================================================= EWEEK NEWS ========================================================= 1. News: Third Parties Fill 'Longhorn' Void Infragistics, Compuware and Borland support features Microsoft has delayed. Get the story here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135223-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Microsoft, Intel, Others Drive Web Services Management Spec A group of vendors led by Microsoft, Intel, Sun and AMD will publish a specification for using Web services to manage a range of IT infrastructure elements. Learn more about the Web Services Management specification here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135226-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: BEA, IBM Heat Up App Server Space BEA Systems rolls out Diamond, the next version of its WebLogic application server, and its key component, an ESB technology called Quicksilver. Meanwhile, IBM says its WebSphere 6.0 boasts new autonomic features and more. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135229-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: Kodak, Sun Settle Java Lawsuit Sun will pay Kodak $92 million in exchange for a license for the patents at issue. Read more about this settlement. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1202-6-7-214274-135232-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: SAP Preps New NetWeaver Capabilities The company unveiled its Java virtual machine container and new search capabilities at its TechEd developer conference in San Diego. 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