Sluggish, but improving growth rates for Microsoft certified professionals [SearchWin2000.com 3/23/2005] Numbers from Microsoft show more interesting monthly growth rates across the board in the past 13 months than in the two previous years. Some observations: MCSE continues to show strong and steady growth; MCSA is finally starting to develop some serious momentum; MCDBA growth has jumped the most ... 5/3/2005 7:51:33 PM    

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Data integration can be a hoot with OWL [SearchWebServices.com 2/17/2005] The movement to standards-based computing that XML and Web services herald is eerily analogous to the work done in the first half of the twentieth century to establish international long distance telephone standards. The use of semantic integration technologies, like Web Ontology Language (OWL), can solve the problem of data composition. Using ontologies as an abstraction layer for enabling automated information exchange is analogous to the use of Service contracts to abstract the implementation of service providers from consumers. However, just as SOA requires an advanced investment in architecture, the creation of ontologies are quite time-consuming, and require a leap of faith by implementers before they can realize their value. 5/3/2005 7:41:52 PM    

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Beating the RSS crunch with aggregation/bloglines [SearchWebServices.com 10/20/2004] Bloglines has created a freely available, simple and straightforward set of APIs that developers can use to access their aggregated blog database and relieve congestion problems. What Bloglines does for RSS feeds is very much like what Google and Yahoo do for popular Web pages and information: they compile this content into their databases, so that accesses to frequently requested pages are satisfied from a local cache, instead of requiring the original server to handle yet another update or access request. 5/3/2005 7:35:14 PM    

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