Scott Davison

Version 1.0 offered developer productivity, ease of use and powerful features. Now, with a new high performance compiler, connections to more enterprise systems, team programming support and exploitation of the latest in Java technology, VisualAge for Java, Version 2.0, looks like a great choice for Java programmers. IBM's VisualAge for Java is a Java application development environment for building Java applications, applets, servlets and JavaBean components. Its various editions provide developer productivity, performance, ease of use and various Java technology features. The Entry Edition can be downloaded free from IBM's Web site so you can see what VisualAge for Java has to offer. The Professional Edition can be used by power users wanting easy access to relational data as well as by programmers just getting their feet wet in Java. The Enterprise Edition is us... (more)

The World in Your Wallet

JDJ: For those readers who aren't familiar with Schlumberger Electronic Transactions, could you please give us a short history of your corporate background and structure plus your own responsibilities? TL: Schlumberger has been in business since the late 1920s. The company was founded based on a new technology developed by Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger, two French brothers who invented a method to determine, through electrical measurements, the presence of oil and gas in subsurface rock formations. The technique, which became known as well logging, utilizes sophisticated instrum... (more)

First Look at PointBase, Inc

In early 1998, Bruce Scott, one of the cofounders of both Oracle Corporation and Gupta Technology, opened the doors of his fourth start-up company. With this one, PointBase, Scott returned to his database roots with a simple but ambitious business plan: develop the next generation of database software for managing data anywhere on the Net. Specifically, the database should serve applications at three levels in the Net and coexist optimally with major enterprise-class data management systems such as Oracle, Sybase and DB2. Targeted were the server level, typically hosting e-commer... (more)

Cyrus Intersoft

Three years ago, Cyrus InterSoft's founder and CEO, Scott Bayless and his team of developers decided to make Java deliver on its promise of platform independent network computing. They recognized the need for a simple, cohesive way to transparently tie together heterogeneous networks and communications systems, providing users with computing access anywhere, anytime, on any device. To fulfill Scott's vision, certain parameters would have to be met. The system would have to: Be entirely abstracted in order to sit on top of and leverage existing networks and operating systems witho... (more)

Staying in the FastLane with XML

In today's competitive environment if a company isn't knee-deep in e-business, many times it's not in business at all. Organizations have realized that leveraging the Internet can give them tremendous competitive advantages, but along with these advantages comes increased challenges. A Web site may be extremely unique, but if it isn't also clear, easy to use, and up-to-date, it won't attract customers. To draw this crucial audience, it's important for any site to use the right Web development tools, because even though each site has different needs, they all require a content ma... (more)