The World Wide Web is still an amazing thing. The ease with which we can summon information from half a world away. The powerful sites that let you buy, chat, read or publish. The sheer volume and ...

Dan Cwenar is the chief operating officer for Access Data Corporation of Pittsburgh, a financial services industry software and consulting company whose clients include Invesco of Denver and Charles ...

We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...

IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language.

COMMENTARY -- The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It's the next software development ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Wednesday announced the publication of two W3C recommendations regarding XML (extensible markup language), which are aimed at standardizing more features of the ...

With Oracle Corp.’s annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three – IBM Corp., Oracle, and Microsoft Corp. – are ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

Surprisingly (?) there is not a lot of choice for X, and regrettably I will have to go with XML... Why 'regrettably'? Well, I don't really like XML. I find it a pain ...