Treffer: News & Views.

This section reports on issues related to the information-technology sector and computer industry in the U.S. as of June 2004. The Rexx Language Association is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rexx programming language with an extended International Rexx Symposium. Created by Mike Cowlishaw of IBM UK Laboratories, Rexx stands for Restructured Extended Executor Language. The Rexx Standard was adopted by ANSI in 1996, under the title Information Technology--Programming Language REXX. Scientists at North Carolina State University say that their Binary Increase Congestion Transmission Control Protocol (BIC-TCP) is faster than digital subscriber line. However, the problem with TCP is that even when large amounts of bandwidth are available on a network. BIC-TCP is more aggressive about consuming all available bandwidth. Twenty-five percent of IT-related jobs in the U.S. will be lost to offshoring by 2010, according to a report released by Gartner. The research firm suggests that most of those jobs will go to India, but China and Russia are also strong contenders, with Malaysia and the Philippines, benefiting as well. Responding to charges that the Java Community Process is closed and proprietary, Sun has implemented changes designed to encourage public feedback during the JSR process.