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Return on Investment PerspectiveBuilding Java Business Processes Without Java Skills
Building new business processes that can be invoked over the Web gets complicated if the need is for more than a few new HTML pages. To make legacy systems supply services it's often necessary to use Java but not every company has a stable of Java programmers available for the work. Unify Corp.'s new release of its business-process-management system NXJ 10.5 is designed to supply the Java without the Java programmers.
CA Offers Cash For Database Converters
Software vendor launches a $1 million contest to help its Ingres database which it's turning over to the open-source community.
Study: Impact Of Offshore Outsourcing Is 'Exaggerated' The furor over offshore outsourcing is overblown and key IT jobs are staying in the United States according to a Meta Group report on IT staffing and pay issued last week. Outsourcing is a little bit of a myth Meta Group senior program director Maria Schafer says. In point of fact outsourcing had been happening for some time. While the best and most valuable IT positions generally are staying put a slowly improving economy hasn't yet been strong enough to overcome relatively stagnant hiring. It's going to be another six months before we see any real [hiring] vigor she says. The Meta study shows that employers pay IT staffers as much as 20% more than nontechnical personnel. Forty-five percent of the 600 corporate respondents say they pay premium salaries for critical skills particularly in the wireless security and data-management fields. Experience continues to sell. Internet-related specialists are in short supply particularly those with expertise in application development Java-application management and networking. However demand for E-commerce skills dropped slightly in this year's survey--15% versus 22% last year.
Red Oak Software Offers Free Version of Web Integrator; Full-Featured Enterprise-Class Solution Now Red Oak Software Inc. (www.redoaksw.com) announces that the development version of its Web Integrator(TM) product is now available at no charge. Web Integrator facilitates the easy and efficient programmatic integration of any internal Intranet or external Internet application transaction with any other application in the enterprise.
Technology At The Top Business technology was a low priority at Safeco Insurance Corp. prior to 2001. CEO Mike McGavick brought in that year to turn around a slide in profits recalls that the top technology executive was far removed from the executive suite. The CIO reported to the head of marketing who reported to the president who reported to the CEO he says.
Apache Co-Founder Never Considered Commercial Open-Source Company
Brian Behlendorf co-founder of the Apache Web-server project says he never considered building a commercial company around what has become the single most successful piece of open-source code. Apache powers 68% of active Web sites up from 54% two years ago according to Netcraft a company that surveys software used on Web sites. Apache has consistently captured market share at the expense of two formidable commercial competitors Microsoft with its Internet Information Server and Sun Microsystems with its SunOne Web server.
Update: Java tools effort aims to ease use cut costs
Assorted development toolmakers and large users have banded together to create yet another standards body the Java Tools Community (JTC) in an effort that founders hope will lead to the creation of a Java technology process that is more affordable and easier to use. Officials said the group which includes BEA Systems Inc. Compuware Corp. Embarcadero Technologies Inc. JetBrains Inc. Oracle Corp. Quest Software Inc. SAP AG SAS Institute Inc. Iopsis Software Sun Microsystems Inc. US Sprint and Verizon is also intended to spur along Java Community Process (JCP) efforts in the area of development tools.
Web Power: More Interaction Equals More Value
Paint manufacturer Behr Process Corp. saw an opportunity to use technology to make paint shopping online and in stores a whole lot easier for consumers. The company also wanted to offer highly interactive capabilities such as very quickly making slight changes of color or finding coordinating shades that stretched the limits of what many Web-development tools could do.
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