October 2004
"Software Cost, Quality & Productivity Benchmarks" is the latest Software Tech News topic.
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Integrating XML: The Executive Initiative
by Gary KupeczXML Journal October 13, 2004
The way XML has been positioned over the last several years - namely, as some type of savior for companies that have invested in myriad systems with numerous incompatible data types - it makes you wonder why organizations aren't adopting any XML solution they can get their hands on.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46177&DE=1
Companies Gunning for Web Services Trigger
by Yvonne L. Lee
SD Times, October 1, 2004
Computer Associates International Inc., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have joined an effort to work on a specification geared toward asynchronously announcing and subscribing to Web services-based events.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://www.sdtimes.com/news/111/story12.htm
Study Reveals Why Most Projects Fail
by Edward J. CorreiaSD Times, September 1, 2004
Most developers are likely to have at least one story of the monumental failure of a software implementation project. After all, according to technology researcher AlignIT Group LLC, about 10 percent of all IT projects simply fail, and another 30 percent only partially succeed.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://www.sdtimes.com/news/109/story20.htm
Back to school reading list
SD Times, September 1, 2004Too often, development managers focus their training efforts on their staff: buying the latest materials on ASP.NET, a tutorial on JavaServer Faces, some tickets to a conference program, arranging for in-house classes on data modeling. But what about you and your fellow managers? To help challenge your thoughts and refresh your imagination, weÂve assembled a reading list for the next school year.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://www.sdtimes.com/news/109/special1.htm
Deploying Intelligent Systems on a Global Scale
by Steven Willmott, Unviersitat Politecnica de Catalunya
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Intelligent systems are rarely deployed in isolation. Furthermore, with the advent of the global Internet, corporate intranets, and the Web, the potential for interactions between intelligent systems has never been greater.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://dsonline.computer.org/0410/d/x5glo.htm
Using Linux for Real-Time Applications
by Armand.Marchesin
IEEE Computing
An open source column talking about Linux? Aren't there enough such articles around? Indeed, tons of information are available on Linux. But that's not what we are presenting here. We've selected a topic for practitioners in the embedded and real-time domains, namely how to use Linux for real-time applications. The article is hands-on: it not only summarizes selection criteria and introduction schemes for RTLinux but also shows how Linux was actually integrated in an existing (legacy) architecture.
Read the entire article on-line at: http://www.computer.org/software/homepage/2004/Sept-Oct/linux.htm
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