Sun pushes Web-services role for Java

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The JavaOne trade show will draw 20,000 programmers to San Francisco this week where Sun Microsystems will show that they can compete with Microsoft in the 'Web services' arena. SunOne, Sun's development platform, competes with MS's Microsoft.NET, which both compete with IBM's own similar products. All try to make disparate programs and hardware share informaton more effectively through XML, extensible markup language. One Microsoft official 'compares Java's role in the Web services market to putting "lipstick on a pig"'. Sun says that Microsoft is almost the only Web-services participant not to adopt its applications.

Computer Language Software ex Military, Statistical Data Included, Marketing, Application development software, History, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Java (Programming language), Java (Computer program language), Java

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New medical software gives physicians clues when they're stumped

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Physicians can now use UpToDate software and related Web site for $495 the first year, $395 the second to assist them with diagnosing patients. Reports have shown that about 60% of the time, doctors are stumped by patients' clinical questions so Harvard nephrologist Burton Rose started the site which approximately 40,000 doctors use. UpToDate uses about 2,600 medical scholars who receive royalties to write and update topics and provide potential treatments as quickly as possible.

Videotex & Teletext, Health Practitioner Software Pkgs (Micro, Innovations, Health care industry, Physicians, Medical professions, Information management, Software product development, Medical practice software, Diagnosis, Rose, Burton

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Internet learns new lingo, XML, and the hype is on

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A new computer markup language is considered by some industry analysts as so revolutionary that it's expected to profoundly change e-commerce: XML, or extensible markup language. XML allows users to write programming instructions, or "tags," but with one significant improvement over HTML, or hypertext markup language - the "tags" describe the actual data in addition to its format. Rather than different software being unable to exchange data efficiently, XML permits incompatible computer systems to understand each other, thus lowering expenses and increasing efficiencies. Companies must not decide if they want to expose their proprietary information to the outside world, for example by directly linking suppliers with customers, or holding onto their data. The potential impact of XML is such that Microsoft Corp. announced that it's going to design most of its future software around extensible markup language.

Computer Software, Product information, Bsns Videotex Svcs ex Database, Evaluation, XML (Document markup language), XML, XML (Extensible markup language), Online information services, Business information services, Internet/Web technology, Online information service, HTML (Document markup language), Invisible Worlds Inc.

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