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Apart from your colleagues, what is your primary source of technology trend analysis?

Television
Radio
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Magazines (commercial)
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Web sites - commercial
Web sites - government
Web sites - academic
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Flash Storage Today
Can flash memory become the foundation for a new tier in the storage hierarchy?
Adam Leventhal, Sun Microsystems
A Tribute to Jim Gray

Eric Allman
Distributed Computing Economics
Computing economics are changing.
Jim Gray
Ode to a Sailor
A Tribute to Jim Gray
Donna Carnes
There's a Lot of It About
And everybody's doing it.
Stan Kelly-Bootle, Author
A Conversation with Erik Meijer and José Blakeley
The Microsoft perspective on ORM
The Virtue of Paranoia
Between a rock and a hard place
Kode Vicious
BASE: An ACID Alternative
In partitioned databases, trading some consistency for availability can lead to dramatic improvements in scalability.
Dan Pritchett, eBay
ORM in Dynamic Languages
O/R mapping frameworks for dynamic languages such as Groovy provide a different flavor of ORM that can greatly simplify application code.
Chris Richardson, Consultant

premium queuecasts

The Ever Expanding Ecosystem for Embedded Computing
Mike Vizard from ACM Queue talks with Oracle's Mike Olson about the changing architecture of network-enabled applications. Olson explains the thinking behind the company's new focus on embedded database and middleware technology. He explores the technical, business and economic forces shaping this fast-growing market. Tune in to learn how Oracle plans to serve customers way outside the enterprise.

The Yin and Yang of Software Development
Parasoft Software development is an inherently creative process. Sergei Sokolov, C/C++ Solution Manager at Parasoft, explains how infrastructure elements allow development teams to increase productivity without restricting creativity.
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Managing Collaboration
Jeff Johnstone of TechExcel explains why there is a need for a new approach to application lifecycle management that better reflects the business requirements and challenges facing development teams.

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Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise
Social bookmarking tools are taking off on the Web. Do they have a place within the enterprise, too?
David Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr, IBM
more in Social Computing
The Cost of Data
Semi-Structured Data is the Result of Economics.
Chris Suver, Microsoft
more in Hardware & Systems
Order from Chaos
How can ontologies and the Semantic Web help us structure the world's semi-structured information?
Natalya Noy, Stanford University
more in ALM
Kode Vicious Unscripted
Computers make it too easy to copy data.
more in Data Management
queuecasts

A Conversation with Jason Hoffman, pt. 2
Queue's January/February 2008 issue features a conversation with Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent, a provider of scalable infrastructure for Web applications. Interviewed by Sun's Bryan Cantrill (of DTrace fame), Hoffman discusses a range of topics, from providing scalable infrastructure for Facebook apps, to virtualization, to Ruby on Rails.

A Conversation with Jason Hoffman, pt. 1
Queue's January/February 2008 issue features a conversation with Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent, a provider of scalable infrastructure for Web applications. Interviewed by Sun's Bryan Cantrill (of DTrace fame), Hoffman discusses a range of topics, from providing scalable infrastructure for Facebook apps, to virtualization, to Ruby on Rails.

Getting Bigger Reach Through Speech
In order to take advantage of new voice technologies you have to have a plan for integrating that capability directly into the applications that drive your existing business processes.
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