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ALSO CALLED: Basic COBOL and Common Business Oriented Language
DEFINITION: Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer of computer science. Hopper is generally credited with developments that led to COBOL, the programming language for business applications on which the world's largest corporations ran for more than a generation. By the time of her death, Rear
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Implementing a SOA: Creating Scalable and Reusable Services
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The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the need for SOA, as well as concepts and notions that allow SOA to scale and promote reuse.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 18 Jul 2008
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Release Management: Bridging the IT Operations/Applications Development Divide
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This whitepaper discusses Release Management, a newcomer to IT formal disciplines. Fueled by complex business, technical and organizational environments, it's bridging the divide between Applications Development and IT Operations.
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COBOL DEFINITION (continued):
Admiral Grace Hopper had made many contributions to the field of software engineering and was arguably the world's most famous programmer. After receiving her Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale, Hopper worked as an associate professor at Vassar College before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943. She went on to work as a researcher and mathematician at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. and the Sperry Corporation. Having retired from the Navy after World War II, she returned in 1967 to work at the
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