2002 is marked by the release of J2SE 1.4, final drafts of J2EE 1.4, the opening of the JCP licensing policies to open source, web services support by J2EE vendors, tighter integration within vendor product stacks, critical mass for the eclipse project, petstore bechmarks, and the fall of WebGain and HP Bluestone. An article on SDTimes reviews the year. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Top 10 Stories. “2002 is almost over and we can look back on it noting many important events which have changed our jobs as webmasters and SEO professionals.” [WebmasterWorld]
The HTML Document Object Model explained.
“IBM and Rational Software Corp. announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the equity of Rational at a price of approximately $2.1 billion in cash or $10.50 per share.” (ibm.com) This is a significant development, considering the huge presence Rational has in software development circles—especially development for the Windows platform. I always thought that if anyone bought Rational it would be Microsoft. Wait and see…
Razorfish, bastion of dot-com era bravado, has been acquired by a Utah services firm. In the olden days, Razorfish seemed like the ultimate cool Web development shop, experimenting with the new medium in public and pushing the limits of what browsers could do. This must be very humbling for them, but you gotta make money or else.
SBI and Company, the folks that acquired Razorfish, have been snapping up Web development shops left and right (they also recently bought Scient, another dot-com darling, among others.) There’s some irony in that it took me quite a bit of digging to find SBI’s website. They don’t show any relevance in the major search engines; I had to go through a Utah business directory in order to find them. Maybe the Razorfish team can help them get better rankings on the search engines…
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