Software


Hummingbird Versus Its Shareholders and the Acquisition Go-Around

The content management specialist last week agreed to be acquired—for the second time this year, in fact—by an admiring suitor.



A Closer Look: Oracle’s New Warehouse Builder R2

Is OWB R2—which Oracle bills as a “completely free” core ETL tool—really that?

The Brave New World of Business Intelligence

The next wave of business intelligence will once and for all take BI mainstream, with query and analysis front-ends on every desktop.

Analysis: IBM Takes the Opteron Plunge

With Intel finally righting itself after years of floundering in AMD’s wake, why did IBM pick now to take the Opteron plunge?

2006 ESJ Salary Survey, Part 1: Salaries Grow for All IT Staff Positions

In the first of our four-part report, we look at compensation growth for professional positions.

Development Environment Detrimental to Application Security

A dangerous developer mentality can lead to mistakes that leave the most precious of applications susceptible to hackers

Building Storage, Part III

Acquisitions, new releases, value-added hype --- what can we believe and who is offering something new?

Two-Factor Authentication: The Single Sign-on Solution?

New online risk-monitoring and strong-authentication technologies are helping banks meet looming FFIEC online authentication deadlines

Open SOA Sells—But Microsoft Isn’t Buying

Microsoft’s absence in new initiatives troubles industry watchers

Hierarchical Usage Models (Part 2 of 3)

Using a layered approach can help expand usage analyses to more complex projects.

Podcast: Creating Strategies to Prevent Internal Threats

Employees who copy data to thumb drives or use the Print Screen button and carry that paper home pose a big threat to any organization.