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- Sun waits out Microsoft
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- SSMS++ 1.0.8 (Windows)
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- The five things cell companies need to do to make you like them
- The five things cell companies need to do to make you like themHow about Customer Service?Gee, maybe some ACTUAL Customer Service would be nice. Egads, you dial the CSR number, and play voice mail hell for 20 minutes, and then get a CSR who is just downright snotty!!I have several...
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- IBM today unleashed a barrage of announcements that cover services and software to enable a crawl-walk-run strategy for enterprises as they move into the services-oriented architecture SOA world. The new offerings range from a "SOA Sandbox," which will allow developers to "play" with SOA before using it in a...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
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- TD Ameritrade discovers database breach
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- Blog posts 2007-09-04
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- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
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- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Survey: open source makes a difference for SOA
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- Blog posts 2007-05-10
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- White papers 2007-02-23
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