Software engineering
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Software engineering is more and more characterized by standards sets by groups or determined by the marketplace. To be able to control the standards is to be able to keep companies intact in some cases. Software, as 1999 begins, is the basis of lawsuits. Web standards are in need of support and the world waits for the year 2000 wondering what to expect of software. The Web and the Internet have a great deal to do with what software development produces. Sun Microsystems is battling to maintain its control of Java, a software language establishing object-oriented technology, making it the basis of the modern networked enterprise. Standards are being treated in interesting ways by the people who make Web software. Jini, a new software architecture from Sun, offers a networking solution and is meant to provide two capabilities, an infrastructure for a network and a way to create distributed programs. Jini depends on Java to supply the common environment it needs to perform. Corporations will probably confront new kinds of databases and database configurations in 1999 and development tools are getting better. Companies discussed include Mercury Interactive, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, NewMonics, Rockwell, Collins, Yogokawa Electric, Oracle, IBM, Object Design, InterSystems, Informix Software, MuTek Solutions (Israel) and Siemens.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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The Web and life's basic lessons . . .
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The Web and ability to share property are central to two developments, one the opening of a way for an organization to send data to a Web site of another company where it appears automatically, through use of a new protocol, Information & Content Exchange (ICE). ICE has a way for a business to describe which information from its Web server can go to partners and how they can use it. In the other development, it has been proposed to the European Parliament that a ban be imposed on Web caching by Internet service providers (ISPs). ISPs sometimes store often-requested Web pages to avoid fetching them again and again. Some say the ISPs get economic benefit from copying copyrighted material and should pay a fee.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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No longer in denial
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Web sites of Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! and other large, popular organizations were disrupted in Feb 2000 by a new method of attack called distributed denial of service (DDoS). To bring down the companies' Web sites, hackers invaded widely dispersed computers and used them as drones for launching false messages. The attacks have generated support for countermeasures, and research is now under way that may bring about changes in how the Internet works. A researcher says network resources are being abuses, and therefore, taking action at the Net level makes the most sense.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2001
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