In a market that is defined by today's tight IT budgets, saving on software
licenses can mean the difference between financial failure and success for a
software development project. While our corporate clients use
commercial-grade application servers, we sometimes find ourselves in a
situation where there are no funds for developer licenses of these commercial
application servers. Out of necessity, we developed and implemented a process
that allows for development on top of an open source stack, while production
delivery relies on a commercial application server.
Initial concerns that implementation differences and the different runtime
environments would lead to issue-prone deployments turned out to be
unjustified. While different application servers do indeed show
i... (more)
In a market that is defined by today's tight IT budgets, saving on software
licenses can mean the difference between financial failure and success for a
software development project. While our corporate clients use
commercial-grade application servers, we sometimes find ourselves in a
situation where there are no funds for developer licenses of these commercial
application servers. Out o... (more)
Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination,
but over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this
territory. This session will discuss Open Source products that are available
for reporting and data warehousing/data aggregation, and will make an attempt
at answering the question: Is there such a thing as Open Source Business
Intellig... (more)
Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination.
Over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this
territory. The talk will discuss Open Source products that are available for
reporting and data warehousing/data aggregation, and will make an attempt of
answering the question: Is there such a thing as Open Source Business
Intelligence?
... (more)
If the task at hand is to connect a Pocket PC running the .NET Compact
Framework to a Java back end, and if Web services are ruled out as an
interoperability solution, there are not many viable options available. The
one presented in this article may well be the only one. This solution
requires MiddSol's MinCor.NET. The product is an object request broker for
the Compact Framework writte... (more)