Technology of the Year: PublishSubscribe- January 29, 2003 A new breed of middleware vendors brought pubsub messaging down to the desktop. With Kenamea and KnowNow, you can subscribe a spreadsheet cell to a topic that's managed out in the cloud. An event published to that topic -- such as an inventory update -- automatically updates the spreadsheet. It's true that you could do this kind of thing a decade ago, using NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) on your Windows for Workgroups LAN. But pubsub at Internet scale is far more compelling. Full story..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/messaging/2003/01/29.html#a585 |