Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a corporation ’ s management chains, causing delays and disruptions of critical business functions. In trying to strengthen the links, companies spend dearly on applications tuning and sizing; unfortunately, the only deliverables of many of such ventures are lost investment as well as the ruined credibility of computer profess…
When I set out to write this book, I was often surprised by the comments I received from friends and colleagues. Many asked me if some other platform, such as Android or the iPhone, would render Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) obsolete (and non- existent, some posited) by the time the book is published. Still others pointed to the growing convergence between different lines of Java as re…
Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility
Whatever the official ‘medium of instruction’, in actual practice most Indian universities work in Indian languages and not in English. This is true of both the teaching activities of faculty and specially the learning activities of students. Despite longstanding awareness of the problem, there is a marked lack of good teaching/learning materials in Indian languages with only rare excepti…