IBM refines DB2's manageability
It can be frightening to think about just how much trust a company, especially one with mission-critical Web-based applications, must put in its enterprise database environment.
It can be frightening to think about just how much trust a company, especially one with mission-critical Web-based applications, must put in its enterprise database environment.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that this is the year to integrate business processes into e-business applications.
When it comes to customer relationship management (CRM) software, it's often best to stick with products that are easy to work with and don't force users to wrestle with arcane technical details. Many users fear that unfamiliar programs will impede, rather than facilitate, their interactions with customers.
Since the very early days of programming, developers have had to divide their code-writing efforts between two competing goals: on the one hand, you must define the logic of the business context; and on the other, your program must handle the technicalities to support the application environment.
As the Internet brings people from across the globe to the front door of your electronic-commerce site, you may find that your software needs to go to language school. If you find yourself managing an internationalisation effort, Multilizer Java Edition, Standard, 2.0 from InnoView Data Technologies may prove itself an invaluable asset in your drive to create multilingual applications.
Accessing databases via the Web is a technology in a stage of rapid evolution. In the past few years, we have moved from script-based techniques, such as CGI, to more flexible and portable solutions. Today's combination of Java applets and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers promises more freedom for developers who query and format data. However, it also adds the inevitable headache of linking Java code to existing layers of database infrastructure.
It's been suggested that to prevent devastating technology mishaps, such as the year-2000 glitch, the work of developers should be reviewed by an editor.
In a time of omnipresent computing power, the importance of IBM's August 17 release of DB2 Everywhere 1.1 (DB2E) for personal digital assistants (PDAs) is understood by IT managers and end users alike.
If you are struggling to find and keep customers, then you are usually looking for an edge: an extra push that makes it easier for your staff to close and sustain sales. Customer relationship management (CRM) software can give you the edge you need to boost sales and service.
One of the challenges that IT professionals face is getting diversified components to work together. This is especially difficult when it comes to compatibility among database systems because, despite the unifying promises of ODBC and SQL, transparency among databases is still a dream.
One of the Y2K troubles that companies could face involves applications stumbling over future date fields found in a database. For example, an application that calculates a shipment date for an order could work today, but fail when working with dates six months into the future.
Although some dismiss the advantages of a faster client Java virtual machine (JVM), a speedier JVM ultimately means that server-side Java handles more transaction traffic on the same hardware, and therefore costs less.
One of the insidious performance quandaries of programming in Java is that developers can easily over-commit machine resources by using objects without fully knowing the details of their functions. Performance bottlenecks in your Java programs can also be fuelled by other factors, such as the differences among Java virtual machines (JVMs), just-in-time compilers, and occasional hiccups in the Garbage Collection logic of the language.