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Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor: Nelson King

Nelson King has been a software developer for more than twenty-five years, specializing in large-scale projects for schools and government. Further complications include being a computer-industry analyst, product reviewer and author (of nine books on database programming). He's been writing for Intelligent Enterprise (and its precursors) for more than ten years. Write to him at: nelsonking@earthlink.net.

Recent Articles By Nelson King A Mashup Gives New Meaning to 'Military Intelligence' In one of the most successful Web 2.0 projects in government to date, the Defense Intelligence Agency takes a mashup approach to build a military situation-awareness dashboard. Put to the Test: Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite 2.0 This clean, uncluttered development platform is purpose-built to deliver enterprise-class rich Internet applications, mash-ups and composite apps. Is it elegant in its simplicity or just plain simple? Adobe Answers Rich-App Need for High-Performance Data/Messaging Services Open source code is aimed at sophisticated Web 20-style apps such as live help, dashboard performance monitoring and guided self-service. Review: Adobe Delivers Web 2.0 Sizzle, But Can it Serve Up Enterprise App Steak Adobe's portfolio can help you add Web 2.0 style rich graphics, interactivity and multimedia functionality, but does it offer the data-connectivity and beefy support enterprise developers need to do their jobs? Here's a closer look at the matrix of capabilities. • See all of Nelson King's Articles

Blog: As the Enterprise Develops by Nelson King Is Apple's SproutCore RIA Half Baked? The Apple rumor mills, always busy grinding out compote, turned their attention to SproutCore in mid-June. SproutCore is Apple's almost-official JavaScript framework of choice for developing Rich Internet Applications... It's long been known that Steve Jobs doesn't want to work with Adobe Flash to develop Apple's RIAs, and that Apple was searching for alternatives in the Ajax/JavaScript camps. Continue Reading The Blog >> 07. 7.2008 Adobe Puts a Rich Face on Content Workflow Most of the big players in Web 2.0... carefully position their enterprise RIA/Web 2.0 technologies and products near the margin – an add-on, a pilot for a new direction, nothing too radical. That's essentially what IBM is doing with mashups, Microsoft is doing with Silverlight, and Adobe is doing with its newest release of LiveCycle ES – Update 1... Continue Reading The Blog >> 06.19.2008 • More Blogs by Nelson King

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