News 2002
December
October / November
August / September
June / July
May
April
March
February
January
| We developed two mobile telephony-applications in the field of location based services. The applications use Oracle8i Spatial. | |
| A database- and backend-intensive J2EE application that we helped to design went live. The Unix cluster serves over 125.000 clients per day. The average response time is less than 200 milliseconds, the longest response time is 2 seconds. | |
| We evaluated software for block level-incremental backup-on-disk. We created a management decision proposal for a world-wide SAN technology/process rollout. The proposal was accepted. | |
| We accomplished a critical software audit. | |
| We developed a CMS prototype based on NPS Infopark. | |
| We implemented a fast, web-based, full text search that supports complex file formats. | |
| We held three lectures on Enterprise Java topics in the Munich Java user group. |
October / November
| We supported a multinational company in the project management of their rollout of an SAN/NAS-disk operating concept world-wide. The concept scales up to multiple Terabytes. We evaluated rapid access methods for data warehouses, including the queue problems resulting from parallel access. A J2EE application that we helped to develop went into pilot production test. | |
| We hired new technical people. |
August / September
| We wrote a migration suite that can be used to transfer 400.000 documents (or 20 GB) between two content management systems. The documents were correctly attributed and indexed by a newly installed altavista search engine. | |
| We finished and deployed a J2EE-based geographic information system. The system makes heavy use of the JSTL and XML technologies. | |
| We wrote an automated, fully configurable "update push" mechanism for a large product database. The system was completely user-administrated. | |
| We recovered data that was lost when one of our customers's sensitive server crashed. | |
| We assisted with the performance tuning of a large J2EE-application for a financial services company. |
June / July
| We devised an automated, online re-routing scheme for a network of over a thousand productive servers. The scheme was implemented and managed to reconfigure the huge network on the fly. Individual intervention was only required on less than 3% of the systems. | |
| We assisted in the sizing of a Terabyte-capable SAN backup system. We finished the migration of four webservers including their content. We developed a new web server managed by a Teamsite CMS. | |
| The e-business portal that we had been developing over the last months passed the load, user acceptance and security tests and went live. The ambitious project was completed on time and on budget. | |
| Despite the worldwide recession, TNG continued to hire staff. We offer challenging positions for senior technical people. |
May
| An e-business portal that we developed under significant time pressure went into international pilot test. The Java-based portal supports multiple languages, high security requirements and a large number of parallel users. We achieved the migration an Interwoven Teamsite production system within 48 hours using specially developed scripts based on the Teamsite API. Last but not least we migrated a suite of applications onto WebSphere. |
April
| We formed a partnership with the financial data company Onvista AG (now migrated to IS Teledata AG). We are now able to offer design and technical implementation of large financial websites and tools. We wrote a research report on Storage Area Networks. We accepted the development contract for an Enterprise Portal in Java. We also gave advice on the efficient redesign of a very large website. One of our big customers required additional project management assistance for a worldwide synchronised technology rollout, in which we supported them. |
March
| We migrated and operated four large web servers including the CMS (Intervowen TeamSite), the application servers (Weblogic & Websphere) and the Oracle 8 database. We also helped to evaluate a JSP-based news letter tool for installation. Again we supported a customer in the selection of a SAP server system and the corresponding necessary database. We suggested an unconventional, very cost-effective redesign for a large enterprise application. One of us gave a talk on Solaris tuning at the EMC user group meeting for finance, banking & insurance. | |
| Last but not least we started offering a new service: Together with our partner companies we are now able to implement realtime push solutions for stock exchange quotes. The quotes can be transmitted to arbitrary devices, including mobile phones. |
February
| We accepted a long term software testing assignment in a Java/C++/Corba environment for a major customer. As well as this we took over sections of the management of a complex web server environment. As part of a customer's cost reduction efforts, we conducted a study on SAP R/3 clusters and SAP service providers. |
January
| First, we'll wish you a happy New Year! Secondly, we'll demonstrate we haven't just been relaxing: We migrated a proprietary ASP-based CMS to Interwoven, we created a VPN over Cisco routers; we tuned an AIX system for a bank; we integrated the open source web-mail-interface Horde/IMP into the LDAP-based single-sign-on system (SSO) of a major customer. Additionally we helped in the planning of a new SAP installation. One of our experts published an article on the new JDK1.4 Preferences-API in the Java Magazine. |