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Understanding ERP can boost your career
Insight Learning about and getting experience in ERP even before the enterprise heads in that direction can enhance professional stature and boost career possibilities.
Prepping for Microsoft's coming attractions
Insight Security consultant John McCormick gives his take on Longhorn, the reworked WinFS file system, and Avalon and Indigo components of WinFX.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Career opportunities in embedded software
Program Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area. What are its challenges?
Tags: Programming languages
Set annual review goals that aren't project related
Insight When doing annual reviews for your staff, stay away from making individual goals project related. Here's how to align goals with individuals.
The J2ME alphabet soup
Insight J2ME defines two types of specifications that operate hand in hand to provide a mobile Java platform: configurations and profiles. A veritable alphabet soup of configuration and profile specifications exists.
Managed code anyone?
Management The dynamics of application development in enterprises can quickly become chaotic if no management plan is in place. Taking the time to establish the principles of a managed code system will reap efficiency benefits later.
Tags: IT Management
IBM, Microsoft clash over .Net and Java
News A Big Blue exec says that if programmers have to make any transition it should be to Java because .Net simply does not make sense for every situation.
S'pore university gets US$1.5m Java jolt
News Business software maker BEA Systems Inc has donated its WebLogic Server platform worth US$1.5 million to the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Epiphany helps Microsoft shine .Net light
News The CRM software maker is enlisted to showcase how Microsoft's .Net tools can help develop viable Web services.
IBM targets Microsoft developers with new tools
News Big Blue is marketing Lotus Expeditor as an alternative to Microsoft's .Net.
Tags: Web services
Actuate adopts open-source approach to BI
News The Eclipse BIRT project founder is stepping up its presence in the business-intelligence software market with an open-source business model.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications
Gartner: IT hiring on the rise again
News Banks and government agencies lead the U.S. pack in beefing up their tech staff, according to a new Gartner study.
Tags: Analyst reports, Human resources, Recruiting
P2P file-swapping comes to PDAs
News Sun's Jxta protocol will allow file-swapping and data sharing between PDAs and mobile phones.
Sun, Microsoft join on Web app standard
News The companies are among the boosters of a proposal aimed at helping Web applications talk to one another.
Tags: Web services
Oracle snaps up Collaxa
News Oracle on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Collaxa and plans to incorporate the company's business process automation software into Oracle's Java server software line.
