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GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: ATTAINABLE CHALLENGE OR THE HOLY GRAIL? by Piotr Fuglewicz

The telephone rang at half past three in the morning. It was Bob complaining about a problem with linking the library we had sold his Big Software Company a while ago.

THE STRATEGIC VIEW: BEYOND BUSINESS RULES TO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND BUSINESS LOGIC by Yehudah Freundlich, Ph.D.

Editor's Note: The key to successful knowledge-based system (KBS) development is modeling business knowledge and business logic in a manner that captures the nature of the domain.

POLAND: FROM POPES TO PARTNERSHIPS by Borys Stokalski

Global software development is about teams distributed over continents building software products for remote users or markets -- with the words "distributed" and "remote" being probably the most significant chara

The 1999 Worldwide Benchmark Report: Software Engineering and IT Findings for 1998 and 1999, Part II by Howard Rubin

The information presented in this section is the first of a multipart series summarizing the results of 1998 data collection that will appear in the 1999 Worldwide Benchmark

THE AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITY IN GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT by Philip Haynes and Julian Edwards

Solving the problem of a shortage of software professionals in the US and Europe by searching for labor elsewhere can only ever provide a partial answer. It is the brute force option.

FAMILIAR METRICS MANAGEMENT: GET YOURSELF A LITTLE WHIP! by Lawrence H. Putnam and Ware Myers
JAPAN'S IT INDUSTRY: A RAY OF SUNSHINE IN THE ECONOMIC GLOOM by Tomoo Matsubara WORST RECESSION EVER EXPERIENCED

Currently, Japan is in the most severe economic recession the country has ever experienced.