• Oracle middleware users go easy on 11g upgrade

  By Rodney Gedda | 08 July, 2009 14:47

  Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g release has succeeded in bringing an integrated BEA WebLogic application server under the Oracle umbrella, but some customers will be staging their upgrades over the new 12 months instead of an immediate migration.

• 5 Questions to Ask Before You Say Yes to SaaS or Cloud Computing

  By Thomas Wailgum | 28 October, 2008 14:22

  With the global economy in turmoil, SaaS vendors of all stripes (ERP, CRM, supply chain, BI, you name it) will be pushing their fast-to-implement and less expensive products even harder. But do you know how to look before you leap into the cloud? Consider this five-step checklist.

Whitepapers about application serving

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  Ensuring successful Agile-at-scale software delivery

  The widespread adoption of agile software development approaches in the software industry has driven by demands for more software more quickly, many organisations have investigated the approach adopted by high-performing teams to see how it could be replicated. From this trend emerged a series of principles for agile development, most famously captured in the so-called “Agile Manifesto,” and a series of development practices that encapsulate these principles. In this paper we discuss the broader view of agility.

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  Top 5 Myths of Safe Web Browsing

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  Five Things You Need to Know About Your Users Before You Deploy Business Intelligence

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  Managing Growth: A review of the global software & IT services industry