In addition to the http server clarifications above, it's important to note that "WebSphere" is not a product - it is a brand. There are tons of software products that belong to the WebSphere brand like Application Developer, Application Server, MQ, etc.
That said, typically when people refer to "WebSphere" like in this case, they mean "WebSphere Application Server" or "WAS".
Every year, various IBM sites around the world hold a week long summer camp for grade 7 and 8 girls. The do various type of projects including programming Lego Mindstorm robots...
Of course they don't... The whole purpose of this 'study' by Intel is to encourage schools to buy up their products. It's a marketing ploy so schools can proudly declared themselves "Most Unwired".
Compiling this list of software/hardware/anything using the term Windows or some derivative can be a bad thing. It may provide defense for Lindows against their lawsuit, but what if Lindows happens to lose the case? Microsoft now has a nice list of targets to abuse they're monopolistic power with. Would these developers (in a lot of cases, struggling to get by) be able to defend themselves? Probably not.
Why not use any existing technology? The reason is that it's a cool project to do between you and your geek friends. Anyone could go out and buy necessary hardware to do anything.. but to say you built it, it's pride you can't buy. =)
IEEE is probably not the right body. Of course they'd be a large part of the governing body, but not entirely it. In Canada, software engineering and other disciplines, are controled by the Canadian Concil of Professional Engineers. As software engineering becomes more publicly recognized around the world, it would no-doubtedly be governed by the engineering board of the respective countries. It only makes sense.
That's the problem with the term 'engineer'. You tack that word on the end of any job title and it suddenly becomes a respected job. The sad part is all the people that don't know the difference and end up hiring someone that is a self-proclaimed engineer. Not only are there lots of 'coders' and 'computer scientists' calling themselves software engineers, but you see 'network engineer' or 'radio frequency engineer'. The list goes on and on. Maybe I'll go around town calling myself 'Medical Doctor'
Seems like you're too 'immature'. Firstly, of course you can't find too many papers written from 'traditional' software engineers - there haven't been many around yet. And the whole point of software engineering is to create and apply principals that will work now and in the future. That is the goal of all engineering disciplines. Do you say that electical engineers should not use principals such as Kirchoff's Laws? Civil engineers not apply any of Newton's Laws?
Engineering stresses safety-critical situations, mathematical verification, design processes, etc. Do a seach on Google for papers by the likes of Parnas, von Neumann, or Dijkstra. They've all been researching and developing software engineering principles long before computing as we know it today was even dreamed of.
Just hope you don't end up in a crashing plane because some 'coder' didn't fully test their autopilot software.
The software engineering field is long overdue. We need qualified individuals looking after critical software. Coding software is not the same as engineering software. The same, again, goes for other engineering disciplines. Why do we have chemical engineering when we got chemists? Why do we have electical engineers when we got physicists? The study of the science, is totally different from engineering of the science.
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In addition to the http server clarifications above, it's important to note that "WebSphere" is not a product - it is a brand. There are tons of software products that belong to the WebSphere brand like Application Developer, Application Server, MQ, etc.
That said, typically when people refer to "WebSphere" like in this case, they mean "WebSphere Application Server" or "WAS".
Every year, various IBM sites around the world hold a week long summer camp for grade 7 and 8 girls. The do various type of projects including programming Lego Mindstorm robots...
Of course they don't... The whole purpose of this 'study' by Intel is to encourage schools to buy up their products. It's a marketing ploy so schools can proudly declared themselves "Most Unwired".
For me, it's not so much WinXP. It's more of the Nazi Bill Gates wallpaper that gets me off =)
Did I think that or did I post it to the world?
DAMN!
Compiling this list of software/hardware/anything using the term Windows or some derivative can be a bad thing. It may provide defense for Lindows against their lawsuit, but what if Lindows happens to lose the case? Microsoft now has a nice list of targets to abuse they're monopolistic power with. Would these developers (in a lot of cases, struggling to get by) be able to defend themselves? Probably not.
Why not use any existing technology? The reason is that it's a cool project to do between you and your geek friends. Anyone could go out and buy necessary hardware to do anything.. but to say you built it, it's pride you can't buy. =)
All we have to do now is to increase the signal range on the 802.11b standard, and we'd be able to hack those astronauts from Earth =)
Funny how Internet Traffic Report is showing a massive decrease in bandwidth usage. Wonder what caused that dip?
Bah.. it must be coincidence
Also check out Yahoo, the DOJ and Quote.com for more articles that don't need a registration
IEEE is probably not the right body. Of course they'd be a large part of the governing body, but not entirely it. In Canada, software engineering and other disciplines, are controled by the Canadian Concil of Professional Engineers. As software engineering becomes more publicly recognized around the world, it would no-doubtedly be governed by the engineering board of the respective countries. It only makes sense.
That's the problem with the term 'engineer'. You tack that word on the end of any job title and it suddenly becomes a respected job. The sad part is all the people that don't know the difference and end up hiring someone that is a self-proclaimed engineer. Not only are there lots of 'coders' and 'computer scientists' calling themselves software engineers, but you see 'network engineer' or 'radio frequency engineer'. The list goes on and on. Maybe I'll go around town calling myself 'Medical Doctor'
Seems like you're too 'immature'. Firstly, of course you can't find too many papers written from 'traditional' software engineers - there haven't been many around yet. And the whole point of software engineering is to create and apply principals that will work now and in the future. That is the goal of all engineering disciplines. Do you say that electical engineers should not use principals such as Kirchoff's Laws? Civil engineers not apply any of Newton's Laws?
Engineering stresses safety-critical situations, mathematical verification, design processes, etc. Do a seach on Google for papers by the likes of Parnas, von Neumann, or Dijkstra. They've all been researching and developing software engineering principles long before computing as we know it today was even dreamed of.
Just hope you don't end up in a crashing plane because some 'coder' didn't fully test their autopilot software.
The software engineering field is long overdue. We need qualified individuals looking after critical software. Coding software is not the same as engineering software. The same, again, goes for other engineering disciplines. Why do we have chemical engineering when we got chemists? Why do we have electical engineers when we got physicists? The study of the science, is totally different from engineering of the science.