Friday, June 28, 2002

Next Up, Dec Alpha Sun ONE looks to be # 1 and more.... Solaris 9 is now a Web app server player. As announced by Sun's Sun ONE group today, Solaris 9 OS now incorporates a J2EE Web application server, formerly the iPlanet Web application server. What a difference a year can make as I look at the J2EE Web application server market and its players? [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Java] comment []  3:34:38 PM

HP buys BEA? Magic 8-ball Says Outcome Is Unclear HP to buy BEA Systems?. With the HP-Compaq merger behind them, the new HP has emerged more focused and aggressive as they sell off what's apparently not working in favor of what's working: BEA? [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Java] "Speculation is becoming more and more noisy regarding HP and BEA, regardless of whether or not HP and BEA have actually talked, yet." Ah...mere speculation... comment []  3:32:47 PM

Steve Outing: Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please "1.) Give every reporter, columnist, and photographer in the newsroom their own weblog." Some interesting ideas for loading up the blogwagon with print journalists (and not just writers, at that, but photographers, etc.) and print media readers. Didn't Dave talk about this very subject a couple of weeks go? comment []  1:47:43 PM

Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) Gets a Spec Draft BPMI.org releases first draft of the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) which is intended to provide a common language for business process modeling. Press Release [Thinkmedia] I browsed around the site to see what BPML is all about and without looking at the spec (and hopefully some examples), I'm still fuzzy. But it does sound like something that's appropriate for an aspiring business analyst to get up to speed on. Oh...I guess that means me. comment []  1:16:56 PM