Cobbling together disparate systems can be a nightmare for merging companies, but when the City of Ottawa was faced with merging 12 local municipalities into one amalgamated city, the challenge seemed extreme.
In what appears to be a major win in the .Net versus J2EE showdown, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. recently announced a US$50 million investment to promote, sell and help customers build systems that rely on Microsoft
The sheer complexity of server-based Java development may be hampering its deployment in enterprise networks, according to a recent report from Meta Group Inc.