========================================================= ----- 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 Panda Software Panda Launches New Appliances for Corporate Layered Protection! Are your traditional antivirus solutions really protecting your network? Are you having problems with spyware? Are viruses still getting through? GateDefender scans six protocols, and stops spyware before it gets into your network (no more hopping from workstation to workstation to get rid of it). Panda's new highly scalable, simple to use GateDefender 8000 Series gives exceptional performance while using minimum resources. For more information, visit Layered Protection. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160080-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= December 20, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= PETER COFFEE: A Web Services Holiday Letter EWEEK NEWS: 1. News: Tools Block Code-Busting Crooks 2. News: Microsoft Releases New Visual Studio Preview 3. News: Microsoft and Sun: Detente Takes Time 4. Opinion: Software as a Service Has Its Place 5. Opinion: Google Gets Off Task ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= A Web Services Holiday Letter If the technology wrote to its hundred best friends, what would it say? by Peter Coffee Every December revisits the (mostly) good-natured debate over holiday letters: those page-length greetings, ranging in tone from a chatty but generic personal letter to a message from a corporate annual report, that families send along with their Christmas cards. If your stack of end-of-year greetings included, in between the cards from the Webers and the Websters, a letter from those go-getters in the Webservices family, what might they have to say about 2004? Dear Friends, Gosh, it's been quite a year for all of us. We opened the year with a resolution to make more time for what matters most: As 2005 beckons, our friends the DoDders (the ones with that cute five-sided house back east) have called our bluff with a friendly challenge to make it real. We'd love to tell you more, but you know those DoDders: always touchy about keeping their secrets, even when it seems like they're just going through the motions. But they're great folks, and we expect to spend a lot more time with them in the future. Read the rest of this article. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160083-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= EWEEK NEWS ========================================================= 1. News: Tools Block Code-Busting Crooks Ounce Labs delivers tools that help developers test for bugs in the coding phase of application development and teams with universities to train developers in secure software. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160086-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Microsoft Releases New Visual Studio Preview The latest build is the first Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160089-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Microsoft and Sun: Detente Takes Time Sun Microsystems and Microsoft officials said they have reached a number of significant milestones since announcing their landmark settlement and technical collaboration agreement. Still, eight months later, there is evidence of few tangible deliverables. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160092-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Opinion: Software as a Service Has Its Place Credit score tool is one example of how SaaS can provide necessary functionality with a minimum of investment and staff time. David Coursey has more. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1441-6-81-214274-160095-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. 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