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- Both sides come out swinging in the open source battle
- This article originally published on our sister site, TechRepublic.In the last few weeks, some announcements from major vendors have given CIOs a reason to reexamine their strategies regarding the open source movement. In one announcement, a networking has-been announced its intention to enter the emerging application services market by tying...
- Tags: e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., open source, Novell Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-12-15
- Plan for 2003 with these five technology trends
- Despite missing a few items in his forecast of technology trends for 2002, columnist Tim Landgrave is ready with his 2003 predictions. Find out why he believes wireless connectivity will go mainstream and what will happen on tomorrow's desktop.An important part of effective corporate planning is anticipating technology trends and...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, e Advantage, wireless, IEEE 802.11, technology trend, PC, wireless connectivity, laptop computer
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- Consider your options when developing secure systems with .NET
- The upcoming .NET Server release will make system architects and development managers choose between two competing schools of thought on managing application security. Take a closer look and make your decision.Most .NET developers remember the ASP.NET system account fiasco in the first release of the .NET Framework. To increase ASP.NET...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, e Advantage, security, developer, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET
- Technical articles 2002-12-18
- 2002 tech predictions get a low grade
- Columnist Tim Landgrave reviews his 2002 technology predictions and how they fared as the year comes to an end. While he believes the sluggish economy was a major reason for his poor prediction grades, he's still pretty bullish on a few expectations.The month of December means one thing for computer...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Channel management, Web services, Scripting languages, Web hosting, e Advantage, Internet Service Provider, Microsoft ASP, Web, Web service
- Technical articles 2002-12-17
- Create reusable Windows data entry controls
- Data is the lifeblood of the enterprise, so it is imperative for it to be consistent and valid. This article examines the use of controls within the .NET Framework to validate user data.When bad client logic allows invalid data to make it to the database, only to be rejected on...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, e Advantage, TextBox
- Technical articles 2002-12-11
- Apply the architectural "principle of the least" to your development projects
- By Tim LandgraveApplying the principle of the least PTL in your architectural plans requires that you ask yourself a simple question whenever you approach any element of the design. That question always starts with "What’s the least amount of ...." Although this principle can be applied throughout the design process,...
- Tags: .NET, e Advantage, developer, PTL
- Technical articles 2003-07-23
- Security: The next Web services battleground
- The Web services movement is intensifying its focus on security--and additional vendors are now vying for a spot in the network security space. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is positioned smack in the middle of the fray.As organizations begin to plan next-generation, Internet-connected, Web services-enabled systems, they face the issue of how...
- Tags: VPNs, IPSec, Network security, Web, Web service, Web services movement, e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., security, PPTP, ISA, software, server
- Technical articles 2002-12-10
- Implement a system design life cycle to deliver apps on time and on budget
- .NET introduces a brand new environment for system development. Learn more about the architecture and design tools that you can use to create and maintain system design documentation, which will help you keep your application development on track.Most companies with a significant investment in Microsoft .NET development technologies have also...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Microsoft development tools, Software development, Microsoft .NET, e Advantage, Use Case, business requirement, tool, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2002-12-04
- Nope, Novell's not dead yet
- As columnist Tim Landgrave explains, Novell has a new lease on life, thanks to the increasing popularity of Java and interest in application servers. He also explains why it would be worth the time to check out Novell's upcoming Nakoma release.In the 1980s, the name Novell was synonymous with fast,...
- Tags: Directory services, Operating systems, Servers, e Advantage, Novell Inc., NetWare Loadable Module, directory service, Novell NetWare, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2002-12-03
- .NET code generators enable rapid application development
- By Tim LandgraveYou can build an environment that allows rapid application development RAD using only your own internally developed code and perhaps some of the application blocks from MSDN. But I think you’re cheating yourself and your company if you don't consider some of the third-party code generation available for...
- Tags: RAD, Microsoft .NET, e Advantage, code generator, DeKlarit, database, top-down code generator
- Technical articles 2003-07-16
- Define architectural standards when using .NET
- The rapid application development gains afforded by .NET are a mixed blessing. They make it easier to develop robust applications, but this often comes at the expense of architectural standards.Balancing the need to integrate new technology into a company’s infrastructure with the need to maintain existing systems based on older...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, e Advantage, Microsoft .NET, architect, standards
- Technical articles 2002-11-27
- The future of storage is 'virtually' assured
- Columnist Tim Landgrave details how a new product promises not only an easier interface for storage systems but improved management configurations. The advances will very likely change how you view and manage storage.At a recent technical conference, I spoke to the former CIO of an applications hosting company. He related...
- Tags: Storage management, e Advantage, storage, storage system, XIOtech
- Technical articles 2002-11-26
- Maximize your investment by using legacy applications in .NET
- By Tim LandgraveFor the first 30 years of business computing, IBM stood alone as the dominant provider of enterprise systems. Although the rise of the minicomputer in the late '70s and the introduction of the PC in the early '80s each promised to challenge IBM’s dominance, it wasn’t until the...
- Tags: Hardware upgrade, Mainframes, .NET, Servers, Application servers, Microsoft Windows, Host Integration Server Transaction Integrator, Microsoft Corp., e Advantage, IBM CICS, Microsoft .NET, server, messaging, Microsoft Host Integration Server, IBM Corp.
- Technical articles 2003-07-09
- Plan now to take advantage of .NET application server functionality
- Application servers provide the necessary functionality to deploy applications. Find out which application server features .NET architects should consider when they design their .NET applications.With the myriad .NET marketing messages broadcast from Redmond, it is easy for .NET architects and developers to miss important technical issues. However, everyone developing .NET...
- Tags: Application servers, .NET, Middleware, Servers, e Advantage, server, application server, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Windows .NET Server, application pool
- Technical articles 2002-11-20
- Final score: Microsoft/consumers 2--competitors 1
- While there will likely be more litigation from competitors seeking to sanction Microsoft in some way, columnist Tim Landgrave explains why the recent federal ruling bodes well for both Microsoft, and more importantly, the public consumer sector.On Friday, November 1, the U.S. District Judge approved the November 2001 settlement between...
- Tags: Litigation, Tools & Techniques, e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Competitors, settlement, software
- Technical articles 2002-11-19
- Basic rules for building and managing distributed data services
- By Tim LandgraveThe real benefit of distributed systems is the ability to architect applications that reuse the data and also the application logic from other systems. To design systems for reuse, you need to move away from the classic three-tier notion of a presentation, business, and data tier as basis...
- Tags: Middleware, e Advantage, public interface, data service
- Technical articles 2003-07-02
- Choose the right data access strategy when using Crystal Reports with .NET
- When using Crystal Reports as your data source in .NET, you have two choices for data access: the push method or the pull method. Find out which strategy for acquiring data will work best for your reporting mechanism.If you’ve decided to use Crystal Reports as your data source in .NET,...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, e Advantage, strategy, SetDataSource, data source, Crystal Reports, data access, developer, dataset
- Technical articles 2002-11-13
- Next IM adoption wave arriving soon
- Instant messaging is a popular consumer tool that hasn't taken deep root in the enterprise. But that may change soon. Tim Landgrave explains that some of the biggest technology players are working to push and cement IM in the corporate workplace.If you want to learn about the future of a...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., e Advantage, IM, messaging
- Technical articles 2002-11-12
- Consider data architecture and application logic when using SQL Server
- By Tim LandgraveIn any new enterprise system design using SQL Server, the architect has to make some key decisions regarding the structure of the data and the location of the application logic that will manage it. SQL Server has its own programming language (Transact-SQL or TSQL) that developers can use...
- Tags: Databases, Servers, e Advantage, Using TSQL, business logic, Microsoft SQL Server, application logic, server
- Technical articles 2003-06-25
- Achieve pure .NET development with VB.NET
- Developers are often confused by the choice of C# or VB.NET for .NET development. Most, mistakenly, think C# is the only viable choice. However, VB.NET and C# are built on the same foundation, so either is acceptable.I have worked with companies that have made a long-term commitment to using VB.NET...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, Programming languages, Middleware, e Advantage, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft .NET, C#, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
- Technical articles 2002-11-06
