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Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual

Chris Thomas (Chief Strategist of Intel) and Andy Mulholland (Global CTO of Capgemini) have co-authored a book that tells the story of fictional appliance maker Vorpal Inc. and its pursuit of creative sales methods for its popcorn poppers. Mashup Corporations jumps deftly from its fictional setting to the real world and provides specific guidance in the form of rules that are analyzed and supported with examples. This book is a cultural, rather than technical, guide to Service-Oriented Architectures and Web 2.0 technologies.

Recent Technology Briefs

Dynamic Web Platforms: The choice between LAMP and WISA

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Last month focussed on the topic of Web Applications Frameworks and mentioned LAMP, the popular Open Source stack used on many Web sites. This month continues the theme with a closer look at LAMP and its Microsoft rival WISA - both of which are examples of Dynamic Web Platforms. Find out more about this and other news from around the industry in the July Monthly Technology Brief.

Ajax and Ruby on Rails: Examples of Web Application Frameworks

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The popularity of the Web is mainly due to its simplicity of use, but is that really true when building web applications? Web Application Frameworks have done much to facilitate this by providing templates for all the common tasks associate with building web applications. This month’s technology brief examines two popular examples; AJAX and Ruby on Rails to show more of what they can offer. In addition there is the usual announcements and news across the technology industry.