Demystifying Rapid Application Development (RAD) for the Cloud

Adrian Bridgwater writes a nice article on Rapid Application Development for the Cloud in this week's Computer Weekly (Where will cloud computing take us in 5 years time?).

In particular, he picks 3 vendors he believes are at the forefront of delivering RAD in the Cloud - SAP, Tibco and Magic Software with their uniPaaS application platform.

Hurricane Katrina and How HL7 Integration Helped..

On 28 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the US with devastating effect. More than 1,800 people lost their lives, and the total destruction of homes and property was estimated to top out at more than $81 billion.