Brent Smolinski is cofounder and chief technology officer of Natural Messaging, Inc. He has extensive experience in industry and research, including a research position with the Center for High Performance Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Brent holds a master's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic University, and was a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yes, Virginia, there are still people who think you can build a complex B2B
e-commerce Web site using HTML. The good news is, these people are mostly
harmless; they'll learn the error of their ways quickly and probably before
their projects are too far down the road. There are far more insidious and
dangerous misconceptions out there in the IT world regarding e-business
systems.
At this point in Web history most of us know that an effective e-commerce
site isn't brochureware, nor can it be built with client/server technology.
Many businesses have chosen to base their Web commerce systems on J2EE (Java
2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) and its EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) components,
as J2EE is intended to be a complete platform for Web-enabled, multitier,
secure, transactional Java applications. J2EE promises better quality,
maintainability and portability of systems. W... (more)
Instant messaging (IM) has quickly evolved from a consumer phenomenon to a
vital form of business communication. Organizations from banks to the U.S.
Navy are recognizing IM's potential for person-to-person collaboration and
communication. Now IM is showing promise as a means for person-to-application
communication as well.
The ubiquity of IM on wireless devices and networks, coupled with the science
of "natural language," lets wireless users "talk" with applications in the
home office the same way they talk to another person on their mobile phone's
"buddy list." With an intuiti... (more)
Brent Smolinski is cofounder and chief technology officer of Natural Messaging, Inc. He has extensive experience in industry and research, including a research position with the Center for High Performance Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Brent holds a master's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic University, and was a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley.
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