You do need to have a critical mass of people who are all focused on the same thing. I hope the grid standards guys manage to overcome a certain degree of engineering debate that we experienced within the TCP/IP community. The grid guys really do need to jump out of the fray and ask themselves, "What is it collectively that we're trying to accomplish?" What is the old saying in the American Revolution -- "If we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately ..."

How accurate is the cost-benefit analysis for the new system? Have the business benefits been overstated? Would the project still be worth doing if the business benefits were only half of those predicted? Cost-benefit calculations usually understate costs and overstate benefits. You are the one who is best able to judge the validity of the calculations. Do you believe they are accurate? The bigger and riskier the project, the greater the benefits must be to justify the risks and expense. Don't spend more on a system than it's worth.

Over the last two years, thousands of IT/SI/ISV professionals have joined the global industry discussion of convergence at IDFs in India, PRC, and Russia. At these Forums, two things have become abundantly clear. Convergence is happening around the world, and it extends from silicon to solutions.

Installed in each of the department's 60 cruisers, the IBM in car solution, using Coban Technologies' Video Mobile Data Terminal (VMDT), will collect data via digital video cameras mounted in the cars as well as from audio microphones worn by the police officers. The data will be fed to ruggedized computer hard drives in the vehicles.

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The device_name must be a valid identifier. This name is used in the create database and alter database commands, and in the system procedures that manage segments. The logical device name is known only to Adaptive Server, not to the operating system on which the server runs.
The physicalname of the database device gives the name of a raw disk partition (UNIX), foreign device, or the name of an operating system file. On PC platforms, you typically use operating system file names for physicalname.

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Three hundred years ago, alchemy became chemistry. Arcane art became science when its practitioners abandoned secrecy to embrace process transparency and peer review. Today, software engineering is undergoing a similar transition, moving from closed to open source development. Only when we complete this transition, adopting open source development as a normal practice, can software development assume its place as a mature engineering discipline.

Combining Web services to create higher level, cross-organizational business processes requires standards to model the interactions. Several standards are working their way through industry channels and into vendor products.

In a computer game, everything is an object: the monsters, wall segments, coins, bonuses, power-ups, and the guns and bullets. Thinking about creating games means thinking about objects and how they react to one another and to the player’s input. So the game creator naturally thinks in an object-oriented way.