This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as
more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven
days of voting, and more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to
cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. The winners of this
years awards will be announced in November at Web Services Edge 2005 West -
International Web Services Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
The list of companies heading the various polls reads like a "Who's Who" of
the most active and enterprising players in the i-technology space -
including all the industry's top software and hardware vendors, services
providers, and technical publishers. Highlights after just one week's voting
include:
2005 JDJ Readers' Choice Awards:
There are 26 categories in this year's JDJ awards. In the coveted "Best Java
Application Server" categor... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls will close on
December 31, 2005. So far more than 16,000 readers cast their votes to
select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux,
Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://linux.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://webservices.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best .NET Products of 2005:
http://dotnet.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Macromedia MX and ColdFusion Products of 2005:
http://mxdj.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program is considered to be the most
prestigious awar... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today,
February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005.
More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the
best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web
Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2004
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/Linux/readerschoice2004
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/readerschoice2004
Best .NET Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/readerschoice2004
Best Macromedia MX and ColdFusion Products of 2005:
http://www.sys-con.co... (more)
(Montvale, NJ, February 1, 2005) - SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the
world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers'
Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005 and will remain open for
six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to
cast their votes to select the best software products of the year including
Java, Linux, Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET products and services.
SYS-CON's readers' choice awards program is considered to be the most
prestigious award program of the software industry and often referred to as
"the Oscars of the software industry." The products participating in the
program are nominated by their vendors, customers, users, or SYS-CON readers.
This year a record number of companies and products were nominated. Below is
a list of all companies and products participating in the 200... (more)
If Gartner's assessment of AJAX's position on the Hype Cycle is correct, then
the days when AJAX is the only game in town are over. Enter the age of what
Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group calls 'Fit Clients' - a hybrid of
Thick Clients (a.k.a. Fat Clients) and Thin Clients (HTML and RIA).
Gartner Group publishes a type of market analysis every year called the Hype
Cycle. In general – as the theory goes – certain products go through the
hype cycle where they gain a lot of traction until the hype surrounding the
technology reaches its peak. It’s at this point, when expectations have far
outstretched the capabilities of the platform, that people realize that the
technology has limitations and become disillusioned. Subsequently the
popularity for the technology plummets.
Fortunately, the most useful technologies recover from this plummet and
eventually reach equilib... (more)
Mercado Eletrônico is the leading B2B company in Latin America. Founded in
1994, it provides services for supply chain management, such as
e-procurement, catalog, sourcing and collaboration, based on an advanced
technology platform supporting more than 30,000 transactions a day and a
complex buyer/supplier user community.
The development of Mercado Eletrônico's technology platform started in 1994
using BBS software, which evolved to client/server and, in 1998, to the Web
using Microsoft Active Server Pages. In 2005, with an accumulated two million
lines of code ranging from stored procedures to AJAX interfaces, most of the
code was complex and hard to maintain IDL/COM+ transactional components,
implemented in a mix of Visual C++, Borland Delphi, and C#, and used by
classic ASP and ASP.NET pages directly.
When .NET 2.0 was released, it was made the primary target for... (more)
When Borland shipped Delphi 6 in May of last year, one of its new features
was support for SOAP - most notably in the form of Web services. Borland
Kylix 2 (for Linux) is now also available with the same capabilities, and as
I write this article, Borland has just announced the Borland Web Services Kit
for Java, which will enable Borland JBuilder to create and consume Web
services using WSDL and SOAP. Finally, by the time you read this article I
expect Borland C++ Builder 6 to be announced (or available) with the same
SOAP and Web services capabilities that Delphi 6 and Kylix 2 currently have.
Perhaps even a bit more, since SOAP is ever evolving.
In this article, I want to demonstrate the ease of use of Delphi 6 and Kylix
2 (two RAD tools) by developing a Web service in a Delphi 6 server (running
on Win32) and consuming it in a Kylix 2 client running on Linux.
What i... (more)
(Boston, MA, February 25, 2004) - SYS-CON Media, the world's number one
i-technology magazine publisher, announced today the results of its latest
Readers' Choice Awards Program, commonly referred to as the "Oscars of the
Software Industry," recognizing excellence in the software, solutions, or
services provided by the industry's top vendors.
The SYS-CON Media Readers' Choice Awards Program has become the
most-respected industry awards program of its kind, with simultaneous
competitions driven by the readers of six market-leading SYS-CON magazines,
JDJ, LinuxWorld Magazine, Web Services Journal, .NET Developer's Journal,
XML-Journal, and ColdFusion Developer's Journal. LinuxWorld Magazine awards
were announced at LinuxWorld Conference in New York last month, and could be
viewed at www.LinuxWorld.com.
All SYS-CON Media Readers' Choice Award recipients are selected th... (more)
Scott Hanselman's coverage of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference
2003, "Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing," generated a debate over whether
Avalon is "revolutionary" or "evolutionary." To read the entire discussion,
go to www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?id=446.
Evolutionary, not Revolutionary
The movement of the declarative "InitializeComponents()" code to another more
suitable "language" is nothing new, nor is it earth-shattering. Now comes the
controversial part. Take a look at Borland Delphi... "Oh, I've heard of
that." No, it is not just that "database" tool. It is a full-featured,
powerful, object-oriented, component-based, compiled-to-native-code
development environment.
The Visual Component Library (VCL) included with Delphi uses a predecessor to
Avalon's XAML. By using a text or binary declarative "language," the form
construction is taken o... (more)
Kinook Software's release of Visual Build Professional 5.6 is designed to
automate Visual Build Pro by execution of repeatable processes. Kinook's
solution will save Visual Studio .NET and Web developers valuable time by
reducing the time spent on redundant operations.
Kinook says its software will help put the fun back into application
development. One benefit of Visual Build Professional, is the reduction of
"boring jobs." The company says, "Visual Build Pro performs the menial,
repetitive tasks so you can focus on the fun, challenging stuff."
What is more, information that the company calls "tribal knowledge," which is
knowledge that is kept in peoples' heads, will be replaced by a documented
build framework. Creating permanent build records can become part of a
project's source code, and can be maintained in source control, providing a
persistent, documented rec... (more)
iAnywhere has announced at the Borland Developers Conference that it is
strengthening its database management portfolio with the release of Advantage
Database Server 8.0.
Advantage Database Server is a full-featured, high performance client/server
data management system targeted towards Borland Delphi and C++ Builder
developers. The new features in Advantage Data Architect, Advantage
Replication, Advantage Online Backup and SQL scripting will enhance Advantage
Database Server 8.0 with ease-of-use, performance and efficiency.
The Advantage Database Server was recently acquired by Sybase through its
purchase of Extended Systems in October 2005. The business has since been
integrated into Sybase's iAnywhere subsidiary.
Advantage 8.0 provides developers with the functionality they require to
easily build scalable business applications with low administration
requirements.... (more)
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