Roughly 40 percent of all IT projects surveyed in a September 2000 Gartner Group study failed to meet business requirements. The average cancelled IT project was scheduled to last 27 weeks and ...

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All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

About half of all enterprise applications written in the last 15 years were written in Java (or one of its derivations). Many control access to sensitive data, so it’s no wonder that they are popular ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...