A Halla from Halla

Went camping this memorial day wknd w/ the fam, down in Kentucky outside of Mammoth Cave park. Sunday was camping; Monday was splunking. I have to say, if you have a five year old son or daughter, camping is just about the most enjoyable thing I can think to do with your kid(s). My son absolutely loved every minute of it. The tent, the campfire, making s'mores... things that as adults we view as part and parcle of the camping experience are completely new and exciting for kids. I've never seen a person more excited about making a campfire. Liam was totally thrilled to do watch me build the fire though. The caves, while majestic and breathtaking, seemed almost an afterthought in comparison to the energy he showed for simply setting up camp.

One of the central tenets espoused by SOA advocates is the concept that information returned by service calls be course grained. Read the entire article...

A point largely overlooked by other reports on the recent pairing of IBM and Gluecode is the fact that Gluecode's product is more than just another J2EE application server. Read the entire article...

Most enterprise IT departments consist of a heterogenous computing environment, with applications running across the gamut of operating environments - mainframe/midrange, solaris or other unix, linux, and windows.

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Sun Microsystem's CEO Scott McNealy recently mused on the record that his company is poised to begin making larger acquisitions in the pursuit of more aggressive financial growth.

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