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Subject: ACM Announces New Practitioner Magazine Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:23:01 -0500 From: queue@acm.org To: neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
Dear ACM Member,
Useful, practitioner-oriented information--more insights, more advice, more tools, and more timely content to help practicing professionals in their jobs: these are the threads we consistently find in feedback from members. Responding to that demand was uppermost in both our minds when we first became involved with the ACM. So we're particularly happy to tell you today about the upcoming launch of Queue, ACM's new publication created specifically for people in the business of developing software.
If you're like us, you're probably inundated with periodicals you never read. We plan for Queue to be different. Instead of rehashing solutions to problems and promulgating sometimes thinly disguised product descriptions, Queue focuses on the challenges just ahead. Technology changes, new capabilities emerge and standards evolve--all of which can significantly change the assumptions we make and the environments in which software operates. These changes also affect how system components interoperate. Queue looks at the potentially problematic situations most likely to emerge over the next 6 to 18 months as important new capabilities and technologies are introduced--probing for insights that software engineers and developers can use to understand the challenges and plan more intelligently for the future.
The March 2003 premier issue (which, as an ACM Member, you will receive with our compliments) looks at the anticipated impact of Web Services, with contributions from leading architects at Microsoft, IBM, BEA, Sun and Akamai, who were asked to comment on the challenges inherent in:
Building web services Achieving acceptable performance Dealing with security Integrating legacy applications Maintaining open architectures You won't find glib and oversimplified answers. Instead you'll see the critical thinking and candid commentary that Queue encourages. But you needn't take our word for it. Take a look for yourself now at: http://www.acmqueue.org. If you like what you see, please forward this to your colleagues who, like you, may also be looking for just this kind of information.
Maria M. Klawe ACM President
Stephen R. Bourne ACM Past President
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