(Article Publish Date: October 21, 2002) - One of the biggest complaints we
hear about many company Web sites, from customers and employees alike, is
that it's too hard to find what you need. At IBM, with 2.5 million Internet
pages and more technical content than any single entity, including the
Pentagon, that's no surprise.
A new IBM advanced information search and delivery system for the IBM support
site (www.ibm.com/support) is expected to solve this problem. Code-named
Digital Blue (dBlue), this project is a digital interface to IBM customers.
The result of two years of work and five patentable inventions, dBlue is now
available to IBM customers.
The team that created dBlue is calling it "the next generation of enterprise
information search-and-delivery systems." Thi... (more)
Migration of software systems to the OSGi platform is gaining momentum with
wide acceptance of the OSGi technology as the dynamic module system for Java.
This transition is of special interest when it comes to popular Java
application frameworks, which attract a growing number of Java developers
around the world. Although the technical merits of the OSGi platform are
broadly recognized, ... (more)