In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...

Guest blogging once again for Jonathan, this is Mike Frost with part 1 of my series on Heterogeneous Data Access in .NET - Coding Directly to ADO.NET

Before I begin though, I should make a comment about the reason for this series. After many conversations with .NET developers and with...

Publishing data as XML... What did you expect, of course that such topic needs to be handled in a series like XQuery for the SQL Programmer. Despite the enormous usage of XML throughout most application...

Glen Daniels added a good comment on one of my last posts.  Glen's point was that in a financial market everyone tries to achieve their own goals, but it's different in an enterprise - an enterprise is more...

Joe McKendrick wrote an interesting post on WOA winning the personality contest versus SOA.

That got me to thinking: If we need governance for SOA, do we need it for WOA also?

Some  would argue that it's the complexity...

Minollo is back on stage next Wednesday. In this week's webinar he explores how to bridge the gap between EDI, proprietary formats, and XML.

• Extracting data from EDI and proprietary files
  Manipulate an EDI file or proprietary files as simple XML documents, and extract information...

Stephan Lahanas posted on the top-10 reasons SOA projects fail.  I think many of his points are very valid (especially the one about how it's the business that matters, not the standards or...

There are different types of marketing... but product marketing, in part, "figures out what to call that thing."

You see, we have a lot of really smart engineers who are doing new things and are very creative about solving...

As you know by now, DataDirect XQuery provides an easy and efficient way to aggregate data available in a variety of data sources and formats, like Relational Databases, XML...