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The Results Are In - Information Architecture Salary Survey 2007
It's that time of year again. No, not the holidays; end-of-the-year salary surveys, of course. Like clock work, the Information Architecture Institute released their 2007 IAI Salary Survey and it looks like the gender pay gap is narrowing, if ever so slightly. This is the first year the IAI chose
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Java Server Market Share Ain't What You Think
In the world of Java servlet engines, there are but a few major players. Everybody is familiar with the 800 lb gorillas -- BEA’s WebLogic and IBM’s Websphere.
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Harnessing Web 2.0 for Political Transparency?
Is it the birth of a paradigm shift? Much has been made about the transformation from the Internet from an informational distribution channel to an interactive medium. This transformation has changed much of our daily lives -- at least the online bits. Everything is changing. So it's said.
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Setting the Standards: HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2
Defining and reaching consensus on web standards is a daunting task indeed. Trying to get the entire internet community to concur on new standards may be best compared to the time honored cliche of “trying to herd cats”.
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Has .Net Overtaken the Battle for the Enterprise?
For years the war for the enterprise has raged between Microsoft and Java with the heaviest battles occurring since the inception of .Net. However, recent research indicated that .Net is now coming out on the winning team. This news is from Info-Tech Research Group - an IT research and advisory firm.
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EContent's Annual Top 100 Strikes Again
Back for a seventh year, EContent Magazine has spent agonizing days, weeks, months -- or just a lot of time, compiling their annual Top 100. Top 100 what? Well, it's the best of digital content companies in the industry today. You've seen many such lists covered here before, I'm sure.
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VMWare Strength Leads to Record Quarter for EMC
The combination of a balanced portfolio of business lines and the performance of virtualization trailblazer VMWare results in EMC's strongest financial quarter ever. If you are numbers person, try these on for size: * US $3.
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UPDATE: W3C Releases New Widgets 1.0 Working Draft
When we last left our coverage of the W3C's soon-to-be standard for widget development, there was naught but an incomplete list of requirements. My my, how things have changed as the World Wide Web Consortium has recently released an updated version of the Widgets 1.0 Working Draft.
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Newsweek Refines -- Rather than Revolutionizes -- Its Design
While we sat about ruminating over how print media is emulating the Web, Newsweek was busy redesigning its magazine to give readers something different. And instead of inserting snappy sound bytes and intriguing blog-like entries, Newsweek bets that readers want to read more, not less. Forget short attention spans;
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Jobs: Web Designer & Developer Salaries 2007
Having just launched our Job Board for the Content Management market, we're paying a bit more attention to employment trends lately.
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Oracle, BEA Mating Dance Draws Statement from Day
Fast on the news that Oracle plans to acquire BEA Systems for a reported US$ 6.
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SQL Server 2008 Is Coming
In an effort to make amends for the 5 year development cycle that delayed SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will make the next generation of its flagship database product available on schedule and after only 3, er, short years.
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W3C Cooks Up Data Integration with GRDDL
As the usage of XML as the primary representation format within a content management system proliferates, the discussion revolves around how to transform said XML into a human readable format.
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SOX Costs More, Says Survey; SOX Costs Less, Say Companies
The annual Foley & Lardner study on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and its financial impact reveals that out-of-pocket compliance costs are continuing to climb. This is happening despite an overall decrease in compliance costs. How is this happening? The biggest culprits are rising legal fees and audit expenses.
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