Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over the past five years. Social-networking Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, now attract more than 100 million visitors a month. As the popularity of Web 2.0 has grown, companies have noted the intense consumer engagement and creativity surrounding these technologies. Many organizations, keen to harness Web 2.0 internally, are experimenting with the tools or deploying them on a trial basis.
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The AJAX hype keeps growing. Buzzwords like Comet or RIA are on everybody’s lips. In the area of enterprise software RCP is already firmly established as a client application platform. Replacing or extending existing Rich-Client-Applications with web front-ends has traditionally required a significant investment. The Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) provides a fast-path bridge between the application development with RCP and the increasingly important Web 2.0 environment
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In 2004, we realized that the Web was on the cusp of a new era, one that would finally let loose the power of network effects, setting off a surge of innovation and opportunity. To help usher in this new era, O’Reilly Media and CMP launched a conference that showcased the innovators who were driving it. When O’Reilly’s Dale Dougherty came up with the term “Web 2.0”during a brainstorming session, we knew we had the name for the conference. What we didn’t know was that the industry would embrace the Web 2.0 meme and that it would come to represent the new Web.
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UCLA Enterprise Messaging is pleased to introduce Enterprise Vault (EVault), a storage system for mailbox items. EVault automatically archives email and calendar items based on an age cycle determined by each department and safely stores them in a centralized storage area. EVault reduces the number of items in your mailbox to help improve performance and reduce the likelihood of exceeding your mailbox limit.
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The most significant differences between Microsoft’s Network Access Protection architecture and other NAC architectures you see in the iLabs come because Microsoft does not make switches or routers. Therefore, the path for handling enforcement is different, focusing on server enforcement and standards-based switch enforcement. The original intent of MS-NAP was not security, but to find and quarantine non-compliant clients in the enterprise LAN. As the interest in NAC has increased, Microsoft has adjusted their architecture to include more enforcement mechanisms. In early 2007, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Microsoft announced interoperability between TNC and NAP thus opening the door for a single unified Network Access Control client
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The ITS desktop support teams (Blue/Green) and other ITS staff members have started preparations for the introduction of Microsoft Vista and Office 2007/2008 to campus. This document summarizes the implementation plan. This plan description will be revised as needed.
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Microsoft uses SAP as its primary Enterprise Resource Planning software. The Microsoft Enterprise Application Services Group depends on a variety of SAP systems for online transaction processing, batch processing and analytical reporting.
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The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse as web sites, embedded JavaTM programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeansTM. This paper is a general technical introduction to the Eclipse Platform. Part I presents a technical overview of its architecture. Part II is a case study of how the Eclipse Platform was used to build a full-featured Java development environment.
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