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  • What’s hot and what’s not in today’s IT job market

    Thinking about your next career step? Well, one big trend that’s affecting certified and non-certified positions is that many large companies are getting around to deploying new technology again; something that had put on the back burner as they focused on complying with rules stemming from recent US legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

  • Best Places to Work has a subtle little secret

    Either you get it or you don’t. That’s the open secret about the Best Places to Work in IT. Either you understand that being a great place to work is a competitive business advantage or you still think it’s a luxury your company can’t afford in a competitive business world.

  • How to never lay off staff: Securian shows the way

    “In some form or other, our IT group has been around for 50 years,” says Jean Delaney Nelson, vice president and CIO at Securian Financial Group. “And we’ve never laid off an employee.”

  • Users want more details on open-source Java

    While users welcomed Sun Microsystems’ plan to release Java to open source, they say a lack of details about the announcement makes it difficult to determine the impact of whatever the company is aiming to do.

  • Sun woos developers to the grid at a dollar an hour

    Sun Microsystems has rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the recent JavaOne Developer Conference, held in San Francisco.

  • BEA dispels misconceptions about middleware

    BEA Systems executives at the JavaOne conference sought to dismiss what they described as marketplace misconceptions, including the notions that Java is being displaced, that middleware is obsolete, and that innovation and commercial software are both dead.

  • Why should we care about open-source Java?

    Among the biggest news stories at the recent JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source licence. Java expert Richard Hoffman put together this list of answers to frequently asked questions covering some of the basic history behind this decision, what it means and why you should care.

  • Java won’t fracture like Linux, says Sun

    Richard Green, the Sun Microsystems executive who will lead the company’s effort to open-source Java, says a major issue with any such move is the longstanding fear that Java will fracture and follow a path similar to Linux. Despite that concern, Sun announced its Java open-source intentions plans this week at JavaOne, which the company says was attended by about 15,000 people. Green, Sun’s vice president for software, says the company’s default position will be to work through any problems raised by open-sourcing. Sun has not yet announced a timetable for the release or how Java will be licensed as open-source.

  • Oracle talks up next-generation SOA 2.0

    With the industry still buzzing about SOA in general, Oracle and others are now talking about SOA 2.0. Oracle officials talked up this next-generation version of SOA at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

  • Developers weigh in on open-source Java plan

    The name of the conference says it all: JavaOne. For developers, the idea that there is one Java is a guarantee of consistency. But when Sun announced that it would open-source Java, developers offered a range of reactions, from applause at the initial announcement to later concerns over whether Sun can keep Java from taking different paths.

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