========================================================= ----- 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.
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News: Sun Deal Targets SOA Development ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= On Watch for Intelligent Objects Content and user interface are the most obvious but least important challenges for future Net devices. by Peter Coffee >From a long tradition of unfortunate code names comes "Paparazzi," the family name announced last week for a line of wireless data devices from the dynamic duo of Microsoft and Swatch. Whether you like the name or hate it - my stand, I'm sure, is apparent - these devices represent more than their obvious challenges to developers. I have to take a moment to observe that this is one really awful trademark. But look at the history: Microsoft has already had to abandon the code name of "Hailstorm," a word without a single positive association, for its personal Web services offering. Swatch, for its part, deserves some kind of medal for its mega-weird notion of "Beats," a proposed unit of universal no-zones Internet Time at 1000 Beats per day. What was wrong with Zulu? Read the rest of Peter's column. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1282-6-7-214274-142107-1 ========================================================= EWEEK NEWS ========================================================= 1. News: Java Studio Creator Update Targets Mac Developers The new release of Sun's visual development environment allows users to develop Java applications on Mac OS X, Windows XP and Solaris for deployment on any platform compatible with the Java 2 Standard Edition. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1282-6-7-214274-142110-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. Opinion: Users Want Freedom to Be Wrong System designers should understand that users won't let dumb machines decide what risks to take for them. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1282-6-7-214274-142113-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. Opinion: Improving on ASPs The services we once expected from application service providers are back, but now we refer to them as business process outsourcing, and you might want to call the vendors business service providers. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1282-6-7-214274-142116-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: XML Developers Push for Simplicity Add functionality only when you have to, XML co-inventor Tim Bray urges at the Applied XML DevCon. Others add that developers "hate systems that force XML to be more than data." http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1282-6-7-214274-142119-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. 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