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Entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment are faced with a particularly frustrating set of circumstances: infrastructure, device, and software technologies are now available to inspire a world of new products and services, yet funding for startups wanting to exploit these capabilities is tighter than ever. What does it take to get a new business off the ground in this downturn? What does it take to make a dream come true? Certainly most entrepreneurs have never seen it as bad as it is today. The IPO market that traditionally helps motivate investment in new companies is dormant and the mergers and acquisitions market has slowed down considerably. Forced to hold on to companies longer to achieve liquidity, a typical venture firm’s pool of capital today simply can’t support as many businesses as it might have a couple years ago.
Forced to cut budgets and complete scheduled projects on time with fewer resources, CIOs are facing one of the most challenging years ever—one in which basic survival will take precedence over rolling out the latest technological marvels or gobbling up market share. Luckily for them, analysts at market-research firm Gartner are offering some free advice to help get 2009 off to a good start. First and foremost, the analysts said, CIOs need to safeguard future growth prospects while making their cost cuts.
Title: Professor, Computer & Information Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville. Founder of two startup companies in the Gainesville area--startups of the University of Florida.
Academic degree: B.E. and M.E. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt; Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.
Although workforce reductions are still ahead of last year, employers are suddenly starting to hire again. Through September, employers have announced plans to hire more workers than they did in all of 2008, according to global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employers have announced plans to hire 169,385 workers this year, up 88 percent from the 89,924 planned hires announced during the first three quarters of last year and already above the full-year new-hire total for all of 2008. Retail, government, and the nonprofit sector were the most active sectors. The consultancy stressed that the data covers announced hiring plans only. "There is no doubt that this is a tight job market," stated CEO John Challenger. "There simply are more jobseekers than there are jobs. However, it would be a mistake to assume that no one is hiring. Companies need to replace retirees and others who leave voluntarily. Everyday people are fired for cause and need to be replaced. Employers are continually reevaluating their workforce needs, so it is critical to persevere."
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Speaker: Susan K. (Kathy) Land, Principal Software and Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation
TUTORIALS
Security and Privacy Technologies in SOA
Patrick C. K. Hung
Summary: This tutorial will provide you with an understanding of how security and privacy issues are very critical to implement a full-scale SOA to support business processes.
Entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment are faced with a particularly frustrating set of circumstances: infrastructure, device, and software technologies are now available to inspire a world of new products and services, yet funding for startups wanting to exploit these capabilities is tighter than ever. What does it take to get a new business off the ground in this downturn? What does it take to make a dream come true? Certainly most entrepreneurs have never seen it as bad as it is today. The IPO market that traditionally helps motivate investment in new companies is dormant and the mergers and acquisitions market has slowed down considerably. Forced to hold on to companies longer to achieve liquidity, a typical venture firm’s pool of capital today simply can’t support as many businesses as it might have a couple years ago.
Although workforce reductions are still ahead of last year, employers are suddenly starting to hire again. Through September, employers have announced plans to hire more workers than they did in all of 2008, according to global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employers have announced plans to hire 169,385 workers this year, up 88 percent from the 89,924 planned hires announced during the first three quarters of last year and already above the full-year new-hire total for all of 2008. Retail, government, and the nonprofit sector were the most active sectors. The consultancy stressed that the data covers announced hiring plans only. "There is no doubt that this is a tight job market," stated CEO John Challenger. "There simply are more jobseekers than there are jobs. However, it would be a mistake to assume that no one is hiring. Companies need to replace retirees and others who leave voluntarily. Everyday people are fired for cause and need to be replaced. Employers are continually reevaluating their workforce needs, so it is critical to persevere."
