Ron Burret via XMLHack
In a panel discussion at Software Development 2004 entitled “Marrying SQL, XML, Web Services and Grid Computing”, Peter Coffee of eWEEK magazine best summarized the state of these four technologies when he said that customers would not abandon SQL, wanted to use XML to repurpose data, and considered Web Services the default implementation strategy for many projects. On the other hand, they felt grid computing was still three to five years away.
The panel consisted of Jim Melton (Oracle), Rick Cattell (Sun), Daniela Florescu (BEA), Jim Gray (Microsoft), Jim Kleewein (IBM), and the aforementioned Peter Coffee. It was moderated by Ken North.
SQL, XML, WebServices and Grid Computing
April 17th, 2004OASIS Web Services Security Specification Approved as an OASIS Standard
April 16th, 2004The Web Services Security specification set includes: Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.0 (WS-Security 2004), Web Services Security UsernameToken Profile 1.0, Web Services Security X.509 Certificate Token Profile, and two relevant XML Schemas. The WSS TC is also creating additional token profiles for use with the core SOAP Message Security 1.0 specification, including the Web Services Security: SAML Token Profile, now in an advanced state of preparation.
Read more at OASIS Web Security TC website
Collaborative ranking? Orkut + Google = Orkut TrustRank
February 6th, 2004Google acquired Outride in the summer of 2001. An article published in March 6, 2001, issue of Red Herring magazine[Google cache] reads,”…it has built a revolutionary, individualized search technology, unlike competitors that personalize searches based on groups of users or on user-specified preferences…”.
Now, Orkut is community. People related to each other. How would PageRank algorithm be re-written using Orkut? Alice is part of Orkut. Bob is few hops to Alice. Bob makes a search. OK. The search results are page ranked. The ranks then get a multiplicative factor(say a Trust Factor). The final output has Alice’s link on top.
Makes sense? Maybe it doesn’t. Google only has 3.3 billion pages indexed today. A search on George Bush returns 6,470,000 results. But then,who thought about e-mail spam when RFC 821 was drafted in 1982.