Vaidyanathan Nagarajan is the author of two recent books: Java 2 Enterprise Edition Bible (Wiley) and XQuery: Kick Start (Sam's Publishing). He is employed as an Enterprise Developer for the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. He holds an MBA from Western New England College and a Masters degree in mathematics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Enterprises often resort to costly, inflexible, solutions from proprietary
vendors as they look to build or upgrade infrastructure for deploying and
managing business applications. Use of open source software within the
enterprise is gaining traction in the minds of architects. This movement is
being fueled by the need in today's economy to make IT become more
cost-effective while providing increased business value. The increased
consideration of using open source software is also being driven by the
frustration of many enterprise architects when it comes to the noise created
within the marketplace by vendors selling their wares.
Increasingly, many are starting to ignore the media hype within many industry
rags regarding the big vendors and their latest offerings along with their
promised payback that never seems to materialize. Some are simply saying no
to vendor p... (more)
Vaidyanathan Nagarajan is the author of two recent books: Java 2 Enterprise Edition Bible (Wiley) and XQuery: Kick Start (Sam's Publishing). He is employed as an Enterprise Developer for the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. He holds an MBA from Western New England College and a Masters degree in mathematics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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