Sean Rhody

  SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Ajay M. Rambhia, CTO, EvolveWare Inc. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Hugh Grant, CTO, Cape Clear Software Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Steve Benfield, CTO, SilverStream Software Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software Corporation Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Nigel Thomas, Director of Product Marketing, SpiritSoft Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

As the new year finally starts to take hold, we're seeing a number of interesting, challenging, and even disturbing trends in the world of Web services. One of the more interesting business intelligence reports predicted recently that Web services will hit the height of its "hype... (more)

Probably one of the most interesting tasks that can be given to an architect (system architect, program architect, lead architect, application architect - pick the title that resonates most in your environment) is the task of evaluating or determining the direction of an enterpri... (more)

There's an old story about what happens when several blind men encounter an elephant. One, feeling the leg, says that an elephant is like a tree. Others, touching various other parts of the elephant's anatomy, describe it as other things. The point of the story, besides not hirin... (more)

Wireless, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Mention wireless, and you can step back and watch the conversation spin for hours around differing definitions and approaches. In some minds, wireless is all about cell phones, and consequently is a completely consumer-oriente... (more)

Web Services Edge West and XMLEdge 2001 opened for business October 22 with a series of sessions and tutorials. Five tracks were maintained throughout the conference. The conference proper began on Tuesday, October 23, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Charles Goldfarb, the fat... (more)

I'm showing my age, but a number of years ago ELO released an album entitled "Discovery." One of the songs was entitled "Shine a Little Light," which is apropos for this month's editorial since our feature focus for this edition is Discovery. I took part in a panel discussion on... (more)

The software industry returned to New York City with the International Java & Web Services Conference and Expo at the Hilton New York. Web Services Edge 2001 East International Web Services Conference & Expo was colocated with the JDJEdge 2001 International Java Developer Conferen... (more)

One of the most interesting paradoxes of the information age is the challenge of obtaining critical mass for a technology - the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Remember when you could buy your software on floppy disks because only a few people had CD-ROM drives? How about the pl... (more)

For nearly 160 years, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) has been collecting and providing information and analysis on public and private companies worldwide. As a business information company, D&B relies heavily upon technology to support data that produces up-to-the-minute decisioning prod... (more)

I sometimes think that the best job in the world would be strategic thinking. Every time I see a quote from a strategist, it's always five years out and full of promise. You know the ones I mean. It goes something like this: "By 2005 every wristwatch will have a Pentium 7 process... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio host and editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal, Sean Rhody, interviews John Rymer, CEO of IONA Technologies Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

My column two months ago, "Sunset on the Evil Empire," stirred up a great deal of controversy. Part of it was my fault, as I was trying to make two distinct points in the article, and that elicited a great deal of excitement directed at one point or the other. My first point, whi... (more)

This is my first note to let everyone know about the plans for our very own, SYS-CON-sponsored JavaEdge2001 International Java Developer Conference & Expo. This year's conference will be held in New York City from September 23 to September 26. As a corporation, SYS-CON has commit... (more)

Maybe I don't understand marketing concepts. It seems to me that advertising one of your products as 13 times more reliable than another of your products is not the optimal approach. In my mind, you'd want to emphasize its reliability compared to your competitors' products. But h... (more)

You see personalization and targeted marketing all over the web. Almost every commerce site offers you the opportunity to set up your own favorites, rearrange their home page to suit your tastes, and be remembered when you come to their site. Every site I visit allows me to set u... (more)