Mindreef

The spread of Web services has forced IT managers to seek out new tools to ease the cumbersome process of managing policies like security and performance.

"There are some policies that we think are best practices that we want to adhere to," said Chris Brown, senior IT architect at Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia Corp. "To date, adherence has been done manually, by review, [and] has been haphazard. We want to automate that."

View Full Story 

Well, eWEEK's Jim Rapoza warned Firefox users of likely problems with extension compatibility in his review last week of Firefox 1.5: Others have since confirmed that there's more than a slight speed bump on the road to adopting this Web browser update. Firefox is a tool that I recommend and that I've chosen for my family to use (my own systems run Mozilla)--but the distinctive Firefox logo is also, to some degree, a warning sign of "Construction Ahead."

View Full Story  

In the SOA archipelago, team members are interdependent upon one another. But most enterprise efforts still lack a common, shared vision toward SOA. New tools promise to bridge what have been until now separate islands.

A few weeks back, someone described to me how two major architectural teams within his company meet, on a perfunctory basis, for about 15 minutes a year, to exchange notes on various projects. What was amazing was to hear that the two groups were meeting at all.

View Full Story

Mindreef founders Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun talk about collaboration and quality assurance for Web services applications.

View Full Story