| It
is a very dynamic time in the industry. Longhorn is promoting a
compelling story, albeit 2-3 years away. Rich Clients Laszlo and
Altio, are trying new channel models, through open source or consumer
markets. Native browser options are clearly growing beyond the IE
monopoly. For its part, ICEsoft is focusing on Java and the next
generation JSF platform. As you can see from the Infoworld article
below, ICEsoft and Nexaweb offer compelling options for Java centric
solutions.
We have launched the online ICEsoft Support Center
which comprises a knowledge base and forums. Readers may now interact
through discussions in the forums. You are invited to browse the
Support Center by going to http://support.icesoft.com.
You may also discuss any of the articles in this newsletter by clicking
on the discuss link at the end of the article.
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In This Issue |
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| Web
Applications |
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Solaris
Remains Top Choice Among Fortune 100
While Linux and Windows battle for market share at web
hosting companies, Solaris remains the leading operating system
among the largest U.S. corporations. Solaris powers the web
sites of 43 members of the Fortune 100 in the U.S., compared
to 32 companies using Windows and 12 running on Linux. Read
this article. Discuss
this article. |
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David
vs. Goliath vs. Goliath
As chief technology officer of San Francisco start-up
Laszlo Systems, Temkin is selling the idea that the long-predicted
era has arrived in which software applications will live on
Web sites rather than desktops. Now Temkin is betting that a
recent open-source gamble will propel his company's vision of
Internet applications ahead of its formidable competition. Read
this article. Discuss
this article. |
| The
Java Developer |
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Gizmondo
creator touts smart phone scheme
It's only just started shipping its Gizmondo handheld
games console but Tiger Telematics has already said it plans
to challenge the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC,
PalmOne and Research in Motion with a smart phone product. The
announcement follows Tiger's acquisition of UK-based corporate-oriented
real-time application delivery software developer Integra SP.
Integra's AltioLive product essentially provided a way of connecting
clients to enterprise applications through a browser-launched
Java client. Read
this article. Discuss
this article. |
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ICEsoft
and Nexaweb wax where the browser wanes
Web browsers are wonderfully ubiquitous, but they
offer substandard user interfaces because they do little to
anticipate what the user might want. Most clicks require a
round-trip to some distant server over a sometimes dodgy Internet.
To make matters worse, the browser is beholden to the user,
not the developer. It often prevents the server from doing
much except displaying images, a bit of text, and maybe a
fancy bit of multimedia -- and then, only if the right plug-in
is installed. Two companies, ICEsoft Technologies and Nexaweb,
offer Web application developers another option. Read
this article. Discuss
this article.
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| J2EE
and .NET - Browsers |
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Firefox
cutting into IE’s lead
As Firefox marks its 5 millionth download and moves
to retail stores, a survey showed Microsoft's heavyweight Internet
Explorer slipping below 90 percent market share. Read
the article. Discuss
the article. |
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Rise
of the underdog browser
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominance may
be slowly eroding, but businesses are still creating Web sites
and applications exclusively for IE users. Read
the article. Discuss
the article. |
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Time
to dump IE?
Internet Explorer is the Swiss Cheese of software—it's
full of holes. Holes in software are never good, but when the
browser is so integrated with the OS as to be as one—you've
got problems. Add to that the sheer ubiquity of the Microsoft
browser, and it's no wonder IE has become the hackers' No. 1
playground. Read
the article. Discuss
the article. |
| ICEsoft
News |
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ICEbrowser
v6.0.2 – Headless Java Supported!
ICEsoft Technologies Inc. has announced
the release of ICEbrowser SDK v6.0.2 and ICEreader SDK v6.0.2.
Both products now support rendering documents in non-visual
and headless Java environments. Previously, documents containing
embedded IFrames or Framesets were not fully supported in a
non-visual context. Now you can use ICEbrowser or ICEreader
in headless server-side deployments, such as an HTML to image
service. Read
the article. Discuss
the article. |
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ICEsoft
Releases ICEpdf v1.2
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. is pleased
to announce the release of ICEpdf™ 1.2. ICEpdf is
a 100 percent Java software development kit for rendering PDF
documents. ICEpdf can be used as a standalone document viewer
or as a lightweight component tightly integrated into Java applications,
and can be combined with ICEbrowser SDK to view PDF content
embedded in HTML. Read
the article. Discuss
the article. |
| About
ICEsoft |
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ICEsoft
Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of Java
browser and Java Web access software for enterprise applications,
embedded systems, and Web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader
and ICEbrowser brands are well known in the Java development
community with an installed base of more than 10,000,000 units
in operation, with customers in over 35 countries. Headquartered
in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft is on the Web at www.icesoft.com.
ICEsoft, ICEreader, ICEbrowser, and ICEpdf
are trademarks or registered trademarks of ICEsoft Technologies,
Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject
of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. |
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