will discuss their history‚ features‚ usage and syntax and finally follow up with a chart providing a comparison of the different Java architectures. History Java‚ a language based on C++‚ was developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990 ’s. (Java programming language‚ n.d.) It was originally called OAK and was designed for set top boxes and hand held devices. "Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage
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Outsourcing and Managing a Global Team 1. What is outsourcing? What are the benefits of outsourcing? The author presents the process of outsourcing as the ability to take a specific and limited task or function performed within one company and having the same function performed by another company in a sort of complementarity. The outsourced task is then reintegrated back into the overall operation. Essentially outsourcing is a common way for many companies to hire efficient employees for a very
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comes to the University of Michigan as a teenager in 1971 and finds his way to the new computing center that opens there the same year. He becomes a well-known programer famous for his quick ability and skill. After graduate school he co-founds Sun Microsystems and helps write the computer language Java. Much of the software used to connect computers to the internet is written by Joy. Among computer programmers he is famous as someone whose ability is far beyond the average. Gladwell asks whether there
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Background to the Study Nigeria has faced widespread poverty since the collapse of the oil boom in the 1980s reports UNICEF (2001). About 50% of the population is said to be living below poverty line‚ with higher proportions in the Northern part of the country. With this development‚ it is not farfetched that families in these parts cannot afford to send their children to school and be able to provide a home environment and the psychological support needed
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Table of Content I. Historical Background. II. Mission and Goals. III. Organizational Values and philosophy. IV. Environment Analysis. a. Internal Assessment. b. External Assessment. c. SWOT Analysis. V. -Corporate Strategies. -Business Strategies. Historical Background Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington‚ USA that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products
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Comparing three cloud computing companies‚ Amazon‚ Google & Rackpace; how different they are for as the following: cost‚ storage‚ operating system. First the cost: As of February 2013‚ Amazon charged about $.02/hour ($15/month) for the smallest "Micro Instance" (t1.micro) virtual machine running Linux or Windows. High CPU and memory instances for Compute Clusters cost as much as $4.60/hour. "Reserved" instances can go as low as $6.43/month for a three-year prepaid plan. The data transfer charge
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Main Issues in this Case The following issues were faced by Greg James‚ a global manager at Sun Microsystems‚ as he managed his global team spread across US‚ France‚ UAE and India: 1. Lack of Common Goals and Objectives * No macro-view * Working in Silos * No video-conferencing 2. Lack of Accountability‚ Ownership and Leadership No “on-team” and no bonding among team members 3. Lack of Motivation – Intrinsic and Extrinsic Different team member group has different intrinsic
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best internet company of all time. BackRub was then renamed Google which was inspired from the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. In 1998 a Stanford professor arranged a meeting for Brin and Page to meet with an investor‚ who was the founder of Sun Microsystems. The investor was impressed with Brin and Page’s Google search capabilities and although the investor was pressed for time‚ he left them with a check for $100‚ 000. After setting up a corporation name for Google Inc. and a corporate bank account
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History of Microsoft My research paper is going to be on whether or not Microsoft should be broken up by the Justice Department. In order to understand what is going on in the trial‚ you need to know the history of Microsoft. Without knowing the history of Microsoft‚ there would be no way of forming an accurate opinion of whether Microsoft should be broken up or not. Microsoft first came into existence in 1975 and was founded by William H. Gates III(Bill Gates) and Paul Allen. The first
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Programming language is a vital and essential part of computers. Even though you do not actually see these languages‚ they are the bases and make up of software programs. Software is essential to a computer because without software‚ a computer can do nothing. All of the software that we use to make our computers useful is created by individuals known as programmers; these programmers use different types of programming languages to develop software programs. The first primitive programming language
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