News 2001
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January
| We developed a generic, fully configurable web services-architecture for a financial service company. At the same time we refactored a medium-sized Java-API. As well as this, we conducted in-depth performance tests of large internet servers. One of our team published an article about the JDK 1.4 Logging-API in the Java Magazine. We also moved to a larger office. Finally, we finished a pilot project for a CMS installation. |
November
| An internationalised J2EE finance application that we helped to develop went online. The server platform is an Oracle server and a BEA WebLogic 6.1 cluster consisting of four large SUN multi-processor nodes. We configured firewalls, mail servers, and routers for a finance consulting company. We did emergency troubleshooting on an AIX system. A firm implemented a software change we suggested. As a result they can reduce the number of Solaris servers necessary to run their application from 20 to 5. |
October
| We accepted the technical project management position in a international team of programmers and designers. We also developed a complex Unix-based test system for internet services. We conducted a detailed IT study into the merger of an insurance company and a bank. A CrossWorlds-based e-commerce website that we co-developed went online. In the Systems issue of the InformationWeek we illustrated our view of the processor market. In the magazine Computerwoche we published an article about performance- and high availability-clustering. |
September
| A large three-tier Java/WebLogic application that we helped to design and implement in critical functions, went online. We implemented a flexible Java security service. At this time we also worked on a complex strategy consulting project. |
August
| It's summer and we should be on holiday... but we are all working. New projects: Complex enterprise application integration with Java and a three-tier Java web-to-database system. We installed a pan-European virtual private network to connect the sites of a financial services company. We created a online survey with ColdFusion. We migrated multiple web sites into a content management system for a large corporation. |
July
| The TNG team helped a large german car maker with a study into system integration. For another german car maker, we conducted a workshop about data warehouses. In addition to this we assisted a large bank in their E10000-adminstration tasks. One of us wrote an article about XML and JDOM for the Java-Magazine 7/2001. |
June
| A internet startup gave us its web programming project. We started work on a project management and on integration work in the field of content management for one of our customers. Our experts tuned several Unix servers for a large publishing house and a bank in Paris. On the 19th of June we reported our findings in Heidelberg about state of the art SAP R3 clusters. |
May
| A new customer asked us to mangage their critical Unix servers. We gave a lecture about Java and XML for Sun Microsystems in the town of Ratingen. |
April
| At this point TNG has a complete and powerful team of 12 experienced consultants. We found new customers in the fields of telecommunications, publishing and IT services. We got our first consulting contract in North America. On the 26th of April we gave a talk about SAP servers in Berlin. |
March
| At this point the team consists of 8 consultants. The firm was asked to write a comment in the CeBIT issue of the InformationWeek. Our new customers are a media firm and a large corporation. One of our experts gave a talk on Java 2 for the Java User Group of the GI München. |
February
| The third partner joined. Another server manufacturer became a customer. The technical infrastructure for future growth was set up. |
January
| TNG was founded in Unterföhring near Munich. The firm started with two consultants. The first contract was for a Java/WebLogic/Oracle system architecture for a bank. The second customer was a large Unix server manufacturer. |