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Jack Martin

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, is cofounder and CEO of Simplex Knowledge Company (publisher of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal http://www.s-ox.com), an Internet software boutique specializing in WebSphere development. Simplex developed the first remote video transmission system designed specifically for childcare centers, which received worldwide media attention, and the world's first diagnostic quality ultrasound broadcast system. Jack is co-author of Understanding WebSphere, from Prentice Hall.
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Exclusive Interview with
Dick Williams, CEO of
Wily Technology By Jack Martin Wily Technology
(www.wilytech.com)
provides Enterprise
Application Management
solutions. The company's
products are designed to
enable companies to
successfully manage their
critical Web applications
and infrastructure by
providing real-time,
end-to-end visibility... Jun. 22, 2005 11:15 AM Reads: 15,163 Replies: 1 | Are Application Servers,
XML, and Web Services
Fads? By Jack Martin I received a lot of
feedback last month on my
'Will Every Child Be Left
Behind?' editorial. A lot
of you related your
collective disappointment
in the current state of
our public schools. What
surprised me was the
number of readers who
thought that application
ser... Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,946 Replies: 9 | Will Every Child Be Left
Behind? By Jack Martin The politicians are at it
again with their general
collective
hallucinations. Recently
Rod Paige, the U.S.
Secretary of Education,
made the following
statement: There is a new
fervor in American
education and a new
creativity that's being
driven in part by this
... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,841 Replies: 20 | IBM Partners Produce
Mutual Benefits By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently sat down with
Buell Duncan, general
manager of ISV and
Developer Relations for
IBM. Jan. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 17,588 | Alliances and Business
Development By Jack Martin Steve Pattison, vice
president of alliances
and business development
at Interwoven, talked to
Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of WJ,
about the enterprise
content management (ECM)
provider's relationship
with IBM. Jan. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,269 | Tightening The Reins By Jack Martin Another month is upon us
and the world continues
to change. The world of
corporate governance is
making its presence felt
in all corners of
information technology as
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
requirements begin to
take effect with regard
to Section 404. You only
need... Jan. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,974 | Security, Firewalls, and
Keeping the Door Locked By Jack Martin As the world becomes
progressively more
comfortable with
e-business as a business
model for the 21st
century, criminals are
also gaining a level of
comfort in stealing
information at a
progressively alarming
rate. Information theft
is a global problem that
will ... Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,425 | WebSphere Goes Autonomic By Jack Martin IBM just announced
WebSphere Application
Server (WAS) version 6,
which IBM says can save
companies as much as
$110,000 per minute in
lost revenue and
productivity. This
capability is a major
advance for
enterprise-class
computing. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,272 | The Move to SOA By Jack Martin On October 6, 2004, IBM
announced the latest
release of WebSphere,
version 6. The next day,
Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal, sat
down to talk with Dr. Bob
Sutor, the director of
WebSphere Foundation
Software, about some of
the new features in this
release. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,651 | Why CICS? By Jack Martin In this Q&A Rick
discusses ways in which
companies can protect
their mission critical
data even as they connect
their networks with
outside partners. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,159 | You May Have Noticed By Jack Martin As I'm sure you've
noticed. over the last
few months I've been
asking you whether you
think BEA is DOA? The
response has been intense
and interesting. At some
points some readers
started with personal
attacks on me and, in
some cases, the publisher
of this magazin... Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,643 Replies: 1 | The World of Telematics By Jack Martin We're very excited about
that relationship. As you
may know, OnStar is the
world's largest
telematics service
provider (TSP), with more
than 2.5 million
subscribers. Hopefully,
by the end of 2004, that
will have grown to more
than 3 million
subscribers, which will... Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,438 | Can Your Car Talk? -
WebSphere Journal
Exclusive Interview with
OnStar By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently sat down with
Bruce Radloff, CTO of
OnStar, and Tony Lent,
vice president of
OnStar's Wireless
Strategic Business Unit,
to talk about how they
use WebSphere. Sep. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,504 | Will the XP Update Break
Your Applications? By Jack Martin Microsoft has released an
XP update with advanced
security technologies and
has urged Windows XP
users to turn on
Automatic Updates to get
consistent security
updates. However, IBM has
told its users not to
install the Windows XP
update. Aug. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,383 Replies: 2 | WebSphere Journal
Exclusive Interview:
What's Happening in
WebSphere By Jack Martin Last month, Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal, and
Tom Inman, vice president
of product management and
marketing, IBM WebSphere
Software, talked about
the differences between
WebSphere and WebLogic.
This month, they look at
what's happening in
WebS... Aug. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 21,530 Replies: 1 | Business Intelligence:
WebSphere Journal Speaks
Exclusively to Dave Lai,
CTO of Viador By Jack Martin With a customer roster
that includes Fortune 500
companies like Citibank,
Verizon, JP Morgan, and
medium-sized shops like
Spectra Marketing, Viador
- provider of reporting
and OLAP analysis tools
for customers that need
to do reporting and
analyze their data such
... Aug. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,727 | How Low Does BEA Have to
Go? By Jack Martin How low does BEA have to
go before Oracle or, for
that matter, anyone makes
an offer for BEA? The
answer may be lower than
you think. Someone,
anyone buying BEA has
been a perennial topic of
conversation for the past
couple of years. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 22,946 Replies: 14 | Why WebSphere? - An
Exclusive Interview with
Tom Inman, of IBM
WebSphere Software By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently spent some time
chatting with Tom Inman,
vice president of product
management and marketing,
IBM WebSphere Software,
about WebSphere's market
share relative to BEA's
WebLogic, how IBM handles
WebSphere sa... Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,200 | Partners Compare WebLogic
and WebSphere: An
Exclusive Interview with
Devi Gupta of Prolifics By Jack Martin Jack Martin speaks to
Devi Gupta, director of
Strategic Marketing at
Prolifics, about IBM
WebSphere and BEA
WebLogic. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 18,167 | Partners Compare WebLogic
and WebSphere: An
Exclusive Interview with
George Kosmides of
Noospherics By Jack Martin Jack Martin also spoke to
George Kosmides,
president of Noospherics,
about their IBM
relationship. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,480 | SOAs Help Businesses Deal
with Change By Jack Martin IBM announced some new
software and services to
make it easier for
companies to adapt their
information-technology
infrastructures to
changing business
conditions. The latest
IBM offerings will help
companies build
service-oriented
architectures (SOAs),
which ar... Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,504 | An Exclusive Interview
with Tom Inman of IBM
WebSphere Software By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently spent some time
chatting with Tom Inman,
Vice President Product
Management and Marketing,
IBM WebSphere Software,
about WebSphere's market
share relative to BEA's
WebLogic, how IBM handles
WebSphere sales... Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,455 Replies: 1 | IBM Puts Its Stinger in
the Competition Again By Jack Martin IBM is really on a roll
as WebSphere continues to
shellac BEA in market
share and product
extensions. Now they go
and release Stinger (beta
version) for the
next-generation DB2 to
give Larry Ellison and
Oracle something to think
about. May. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,275 | Sarbanes-Oxley: The New
Rising Star By Jack Martin Ineffectual corporate
management has given a
great gift to
programmers, system
administrators, and CIOs
- endless corporate
accounting scandals. Our
federal government has
not missed this
scandalous behavior, as
they have passed an
extraordinarily strong,
far-re... May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,223 | IBM Offers New Role-Based
Tools By Jack Martin Well, it's another month
and we're off to a good
start with IBM making it
easier for people to find
new uses for WebSphere.
IBM has taken the
teams-based approach to
the next step. They just
released a roles-based
group of tools - six
power packs and eight
tracks ... Mar. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,411 Replies: 1 | Going Vertical: Interview
with IBM's Paraic Sweeney By Jack Martin WebSphere Journal
editor-in-chief Jack
Martin recently chatted
with Paraic Sweeney,
IBM's VP of Marketing for
Industry Solutions and
Business Integration,
Software Group. In this
exclusive interview,
Sweeney discusses IBM's
Middleware Industry
Solutions initiative... Mar. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,807 | Sarbanes-Oxley: The New
Rising Star By Jack Martin Ineffectual corporate
management has given a
great gift to
programmers, system
administrators, and CIOs
- endless corporate
accounting scandals. Our
federal government has
not missed this
scandalous behavior as
they have passed an
extraordinarily strong,
far-rea... Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 25,732 Replies: 3 | Offshore Outsourcing:
Magic Bullet or Dirty
Word? By Jack Martin In the world of IT,
outsourcing - also known
as 'offshoring' - is
either the dirtiest word
you can utter or a
brilliant one; it's all
about who says it to whom
and where it is said. No
matter who uses it, it is
a word most often said in
private. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 24,560 Replies: 21 | Your Software Is Only as
Secure as Your Developers By Jack Martin As we go to press with
our December issue,
Microsoft has issued its
65th security bulletin of
the year disclosing a
security flaw of critical
severity in most versions
of its popular Windows
operating system.
Microsoft urged users of
Windows 2000, Millennium,
98, ... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM Reads: 11,860 | It's You, Not the
Software By Jack Martin The IBM WebSphere family
of products can be a lot
of different things to
different people, and
just like any family
each member has its own
strengths and weaknesses. Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM Reads: 13,206 | IBM's Rob High Talks
WebSphere Security - Part
2: Layered approach
thwarts attacks By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently spoke with Rob
High, IBM Distinguished
Engineer and chief
architect for IBM
WebSphere Application
Server. In this exclusive
interview, High discusses
the SMB market, computing
as a utility, and
WebSpher... Jan. 23, 2004 04:37 PM Reads: 13,294 | How to Deal with IT
Outsourcing? Fulfill
Society's Unmet Needs By Jack Martin The whole point of my
recent series of
editorials has been to
get people thinking about
what has happened to the
job market for IT
developers and
administrators - and
where it is going next.
Over the past two months
I have written about what
I have witnessed at
... Jan. 23, 2004 03:54 PM Reads: 14,257 Replies: 2 | Form & Function - Part 1:
Principles are the basis
of the WAS architecture -
and its success By Jack Martin Jack Martin,
editor-in-chief of
WebSphere Journal,
recently spoke with Rob
High, IBM Distinguished
Engineer and chief
architect for IBM
WebSphere Application
Server. In this exclusive
two-part interview, High
discusses principles of
architecture, the
evolution o... Dec. 24, 2003 12:08 PM Reads: 12,083 Replies: 1 | Offshoring Offers
Opportunities for U.S. IT
Troubleshooters By Jack Martin Whether you like it or
not, the offshoring of IT
projects is here to stay,
so get over it. If you
can't get over it, get
out of IT. But before you
head for the exit, think
about what you'll be
missing. Dec. 24, 2003 12:05 PM Reads: 11,664 Replies: 3 | Outsourcing: Magic Bullet
or Dirty Word? It All
Depends on Your
Perspective By Jack Martin In the world of IT,
outsourcing is either the
dirtiest word you can
utter or a brilliant one;
it's all about who says
it to whom and where it
is said. Nov. 24, 2003 11:22 AM Reads: 10,998 Replies: 7 | WebSphere Strategy
Focuses on Tried-and-True By Jack Martin WebSphere Journal
editor-in-chief Jack
Martin recently chatted
with Joe Damassa and the
WebSphere marketing team,
which features some new
faces but is just as
dedicated to the
continued success of the
WebSphere brand. In this
exclusive interview the
team discu... Oct. 23, 2003 09:51 AM Reads: 11,566 | Profit Without Honor By Jack Martin The latest way to make a
buck is to get your
company some very cheap
labor using L-1 visas.
You can pay the new
workers less than
minimum wage - and it's
completely legal. Oct. 23, 2003 09:23 AM Reads: 9,292 Replies: 5 | The Demand for On Demand By Jack Martin WebSphere Developer's
Journal Editor-in-Chief
Jack Martin recently
spoke with IBM's Peter
Fordyce, Worldwide
WebSphere Foundation and
Tools Sales Manager about
how he sees his group's
role in the WebSphere
community - and what
customers are looking
for. Sep. 24, 2003 09:24 AM Reads: 10,639 | Lots of Exciting
Happenings in the World
of WebSphere By Jack Martin It's been a busy month in
the world of WebSphere,
with the advent of some
very exciting new
functions in WebSphere
Studio and WebSphere
Application Server. The
latest version of
WebSphere Studio (v5.1)
takes a huge step toward
helping people build Web
applicati... Sep. 24, 2003 09:14 AM Reads: 8,714 | New Adapters Make It
Easier than Ever to
Harness the Power of
WebSphere By Jack Martin There is no better time
than now to implement
WebSphere in your
enterprise, and
integration is a good
place to start. Recently,
IBM unveiled more than 50
WebSphere Business
Integration Adapters that
they have developed and
more than 300 that were
developed by IBM Business
Partners. Aug. 15, 2003 12:59 PM Reads: 8,736 |
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