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Businessware takes flight The cross-platform integration services provided by enterprise application integration tools are quickly allowing large enterprises to interconnect their disparate OS platforms and heterogeneous application collections. By Lynn Haber MQSeries tools take flight TWA's Joe Stuchel As companies like TWA have discovered, IBM's MQSeries can help you link your legacy systems to the Web. But what tools should you use to make code development less like agony and more like profit? By Michael Jay Tucker Middleware: Link everything to anything Middleware helps connect multiple client platforms, operating systems, and applications to one or more servers. Another expensive, complicated technology to master? Perhaps, but all that may soon change. By Eva Freeman Middleware demystified Gag! Middleware! We make sense of a confusing set of software that, when properly used, can be the key to economical client/server development. By Richard Schreiber Glue enterprisewide apps together It's your choice--you can spend the next 10 years trying to become the world's best systems integrator, or you can make it easy on yourself and knit enterprise systems together with middleware. By Richard Schreiber Message Oriented Middleware Association Object Management Group Distributed Object Computing with CORBA , Douglas C. Schmidt

Unmask its power IBM's MQSeries middleware has proved itself a cost-effective means of linking the world to legacy applications. But for IT, the real opportunity for making money will be in the management of the MOM beast. By Michael Jay Tucker DB middleware helps you find your data While the industry's attention has been focused on universal databases, two major DB vendors have looked instead to a new kind of transaction-serving middleware. If you've got lots of databases scattered across a vast network, Sybase's Jaguar and Microsoft's Viper might save you a fortune. By Michael Jay Tucker Bridge your legacy systems to the Web Two types of middleware -- message-oriented middleware (MOM) and object request brokers (ORBs) -- are competing to become the network standard for linking your legacy systems to the Web. Which type makes sense for you? By Michael Jay Tucker Middleware makes C/S apps really work Deploying middleware isn't easy, but it will save you money on administration and maintenance. Use these guideposts to forge a smooth path, and remember: keep it simple. By Claire Tristram Getting distributed apps to communicate: Let's talk middleware Should you use remote procedure calls or messaging? Yes, but stick to higher level tools that incorporate them when possible. By Richard Schreiber

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