(Joe DeCarlo, Reginaldo Barosa, Jim Eberwein, Michael Virga and Henk van der Wijk) Faced with enormous pressures to do more with less, companies need a more productive, enterprise-level, integrated development tool. IBM WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer Version 5.1.2 is the solution to this prob
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(Tony Patton) Developers often get so wrapped up in the technologies they’re using in their current project that they forget how important it is to keep abreast of emerging technologies. Get a sneak peek of what’s coming down the development pike from Microsoft.
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(Ashvini Sharma) Adjusting the following properties can have an impact on parallelization during execution.
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