In Pro Drupal as an Enterprise Development Platform authors Jamie Kurtz and Thomas Besluau explain how developers can save themselves time and money, and build their applications faster with fewer bugs by using the Drupal CMS as a foundation for their projects. The days when custom client applications were built entirely from scratch...

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Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. Now, one of the world’s leading IT innovators explains what it all means—coherently, thoroughly, and authoritatively.

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Rich Internet Applications (RIA), or to put it into its broader scope, the Rich Enterprise Application (REA) paradigm, has become reality and new business applications are primarily built for web and mobile clients and less for the desktop. Through the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in business application development and...

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President Kennedy was speaking of going to the moon—a goal only slightly more ambitious, in the view...