CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary in a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership role in the world.

The new specification for Servlets 3.0 is coming, and Roy van Rijn takes a good look at it. He sees some good things, but also something that makes him want to stand up and make an alternative proposal. Here it is.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary in a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership role in the world.

The economic crisis gives IT managers a chance to take advantage of what might be a once-in-a-career buyer's market. Here's how to make sure you don't miss out.

Sun has released MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA, "the first 5.1 production version of the popular open source database. MySQL 5.1.30 is recommended for use on production systems." Notable new features in this release include table and index partitioning, row-based and mixed replication a built-in job scheduler, new SQL diagnostic aids and performance utilities, and improved XML handling with XPath support. "ExtractValue() returns the content of a fragment of XML matching a given XPath expression. UpdateXML() replaces the element selected from a fragment of XML by an XPath expression supplied by the user with a second XML fragment (also user-supplied), and returns the modified XML. See Section 11.10, “XML Functions”."