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IBM Layoffs and Compensation Raise Disturbing Questions About Corporate Ethics
Written by Chris Smith   
Saturday, 04 April 2009 18:00

The corporation continues to keep layoff numbers secret but is obliged to report that executives received millions in bonuses and extravagant perks.

chris_smith.jpgBy Chris Smith

While wandering the aisles of Wal-Mart the other day, I noticed that the store's stock of resumé paper was completely sold out. I don't know why I should be surprised by this, but it made me wonder if a few thousand laid-off IBM employees might have been responsible. Perhaps they first met at McDonald's for coffee and then marched over to Wal-Mart together and swarmed into the store like a hoard of locusts, wiping the shelves clean of the precious commodity that everyone wants: resumé paper!

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:09
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EJB3 and WebSphere: A Harmonious Union?
Written by Joe Pluta   
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 18:00

After stumbling out of the gate, Entity Java Beans return with a whole new attitude.

joe_pluta.jpgBy Joe Pluta

In my most recent article on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), I mentioned that I consider Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to be terribly over-engineered. In that same article, I mentioned my longstanding opinion that Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) was originally in the same category. I in fact once said EJB was one of the first technologies that had "jumped the shark" before being officially released.

 

However, EJB has evolved.

Last Updated on Monday, 18 May 2009 13:13
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