Thursday, April 29, 2004
Infosys hikes freshers' salaries
India's billion-dollar software major Infosys Technologies has increased the salaries of its new recruits and is also in the process of giving up to 17 per cent salary hike to its employees.
The entry-level monthly salaries for freshers at Infosys have been raised by Rs 1,000 to Rs 15,000. Last year, entry-level salaries had not been increased by the company.
The IT giant had recently said that it would hike the salaries of its employees by about 17 per cent during 2004-05.
The company has also decided to increase its headcount by 8,000-10,000 on a gross basis where some recruitment would be at the lateral level, Infosys CEO and Managing Director Nandan Nilekani had told newspersons in New Delhi recently.
The company currently has more than 25,000 workers.
Infosys is planning to expand its global reach and thus needs more hands. It already has presence in China, Mauritius, Czech Republic, Canada and Toronto, among other places.
W3C Publishes Web Services Choreography Language
With Web services bringing together an array of different users, applications and services, their interactions must be choreographed, so the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the first in a series of drafts for the Web Services Choreography Description Language, Version 1.0 (WS-CDL). [More...]
New Software Runs Windows on Linux
A Philippines-based software developer this week released software that enables Windows-based programs to run on computers using archrival Linux.
In a statement, Peter Valdes, CTO of SpecOps Labs, said the software ultimately will help users migrate from Windows machines to the open-source Linux platform. [More...]
New Worm Attacks Windows Vulnerabilities
A new worm materialized yesterday in the U.S. Pacific region and was continuing a slow circulation across the U.S. mainland last night in search of compromised computer systems. VeriSign engineers have been tracking increased Internet traffic on customers' computer systems around the country since April 16th. [More...]
oracle.com : PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head
Balancing the pros and cons of the two most popular means of building web applications
When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, this code is then run on the server, and it returns some content, which then assumes part of the shape of the resulting HTML page sent back to the browser. Both the open source scripting language PHP and languages within Microsoft's ASP.NET framework fall into this category; JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Perl/Mason operate this way as well.
In this article I'll focus on PHP, the technology Oracle has chosen to incorporate into its products, and ASP.NET. I'll overview the various strengths and weaknesses of each, discussing in particular those areas that will help you make your decision on which to go with for your development project. There are a lot of factors to consider, and different projects may appeal to a different technology. In conclusion you'll find a point-by-point comparison in terms of price, speed and efficiency, security, cross-platform support, and the advantages of an open source solution.
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J2EE 1.5 previewed
Ease of development to be highlighted
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ease of development will be a core focus of J2EE 1.5, the follow-up to the much-heralded J2EE 1.4, a Sun Microsystems official said on Monday. Click for more
Java : What is Identity ?
Using the "Identity Grid" as organizing principle for integrating and exchanging identity data across the enterprise or through a portal. Click For More
