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Integrating Enterprise Applications
by David S. Linthicum
 Once upon a time, we built everything from scratch. Now the best value is to purchase and integrate. This may seem like a simple process, but the number of failed package installation projects outnumbers the successes. Dave Linthicum walks you through the process of installing and integrating packaged applications, pointing out the common problem areas and presenting tools and processes that will help.

Data Binding in Dynamic HTML
by Rick Dobson
 Dynamic HTML (DHTML) will change the way developers build Web applications by empowering the client end of the Web server/browser relationship. This article explores data binding, which helps deliver data asynchronously from a server to a Web browser and, as a result, is the DHTML feature most oriented to the needs of database developers.

Scaling Operating Systems
 by Curt Mayer
 Operating systems play a major role in the success or failure of your online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Continuing the Emergent Corp. Transaction Processing Series, Curt Mayer offers insight on how to pick, tune, and scale an operating system to shoulder the weight of powerful OLTP applications.

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Modeling Object/Relational Databases
by Seth Grimes
CASE vendors are starting to support Universal Servers, but tools are still immature.

From the Editor
by Maurice Frank
Trying times.

Enterprise Manager
by Judith Hurwitz and Steven Foote
Dismantling stovepipes.

Data Warehouse Architect
by Ralph Kimball
Musings on metadata.

SQL for Smarties
by Joe Celko
Ode to travel, universal identifiers and concurrency control.

Application Architect
by David S. Linthicum
COM and CORBA unite.

Server Side
by Martin Rennhackkamp
Inside Versant 5.0.

Net Developer
by Nelson King
Understanding Microsoft's DNA.

Start Here
by Clara H. Parkes
The long road to wisdom.


Hands-On Reviews

SilverStream Software Inc.'s SilverStream lets you build and deploy Java- or HTML-based business applications for the Internet, intranets, and extranets.
by Brian J. Smith

Broadbase Information Systems' Broadbase is a data mart solution that supports a broad range of analytical functions including OLAP and decision support.
by Robin Schumacher


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