Rob Veitch

If you're looking for the next frontier in enterprise IT, look no further than your own hand. The combination of mobile phones, two-way pagers and powerful personal data assistants (PDA) with the fast and cheap wireless Internet is about to unleash a revolution in personal and en... (more)

Last summer I discussed how the evolution of consumer portals like Yahoo! was expanding the industry's understanding of what a corporate Web site might entail (see PBDJ, Vol. 6, issue 8). In fact, the ultimate result of moving a business to the Web seemed to naturally create an "... (more)

In some ways, the appearance of J2EE in the Java world is similar to the introduction of SQL to the database world. Prior to SQL, each vendor's search engine and approach was unique and hierarchical - in other words, a proprietary system that was inflexible and difficult to maint... (more)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is one customer who's leveraged PowerBuilder and EAServer to develop an intranet solution. This application has provided BCBSRI with tremendous cost savings and enhanced performance. Using Data to Everyone's Advantage BCBSRI is... (more)

It's a new year, a new millennium (give or take a year), and we've just released version 3.5 of the Sybase Enterprise Application Server. There's no better time to contemplate where we've been and where we're going. Since the first release of PowerBuilder, our mission has been to ... (more)

There's a lot of talk today about the potential of mobile and wireless technology. Somewhere between the hype and the naysaying lies the truth. While you cannot yet watch a movie on your mobile phone, many companies are harnessing the power of mobile technology to reap significan... (more)

If you're looking for the next frontier in enterprise IT, look no further than your own hand. The combination of mobile phones, two-way pagers and powerful personal data assistants (PDA) with the fast and cheap wireless Internet is about to unleash a revolution in personal and en... (more)

Last summer I discussed how the evolution of consumer portals like Yahoo! was expanding the industry's understanding of what a corporate Web site might entail (see PBDJ, Vol. 6, issue 8). In fact, the ultimate result of moving a business to the Web seemed to naturally create an "... (more)

In some ways, the appearance of J2EE in the Java world is similar to the introduction of SQL to the database world. Prior to SQL, each vendor's search engine and approach was unique and hierarchical - in other words, a proprietary system that was inflexible and difficult to maint... (more)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is one customer who's leveraged PowerBuilder and EAServer to develop an intranet solution. This application has provided BCBSRI with tremendous cost savings and enhanced performance. Using Data to Everyone's Advantage BCBSRI is... (more)

It's a new year, a new millennium (give or take a year), and we've just released version 3.5 of the Sybase Enterprise Application Server. There's no better time to contemplate where we've been and where we're going. Since the first release of PowerBuilder, our mission has been to ... (more)