Intelligent Traffic Systems

Just checking in.  Haven't been writing much lately because of my current workload and some side projects that have been stealing my time.

IBM made their top 5 technology predictions for the next few years, and Intelligent Traffic Systems made the list.  Not because of my influence I assume, but because we see a market there as traffic and congestion become more of an influence on worker productivity.  Gotta get the workers to the plant on time.

My work on intelligent traffic systems these days has been limited to some patent development.  I haven't had much chance to work on my simulation code, although I have done some work on my neural net design and my intelligent blackjack playing agent.  Helps pass the time on long flights.

Oracle is sucking up BEA.  We at IBM saw this coming a while ago, and were not that surprised.  One less competitor to knock off.  We'll see if Oracle can survive the coming economic turn down.

Intel missed earnings and warned they are not likely to improve much in 08.  Take this into account with AMD's demise, and writing couldn't be more clear.  We are headed towards recession with a serious consumer and business spending slow down.  Margins on processors are only going to decrease.  Intel needs to find a new line of growth.

Java is becoming the new Cobol if you didn't know.  I always like these articles that claim one language is falling out of favor for another. 

Simply put, developers are saying that Java slows them down. “There were big promises that Java would solve incompatibility problems [across platforms]. But now there are different versions and different downloads, creating complications,” says Peter Thoneny, CEO of Twiki.net

News flash for you programming prognosticators, you have been saying that COBOL is a dead language for the last 20 years, and every bank in the country is still running it, and will be for the coming future.  COBOL isnt even the new COBOL.

Here is the deal with Java, its a complex language, and it was not designed for HTML generation applications.  Try writing a 2D graphics program with geometric equations and real-time event management with Ruby/Rails.  You cant.  Cant do it with PHP either.  So this is not an apples to apples comparison.

By the way, the most popular programming language in the world is C, I wonder when it becomes the new COBOL, if it hasnt already.

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[Jim Rodriguez]

Thales Raytheon is currently seaching for individuals that have experience with Intelligent Traffic or Tolling, or Transportation systems. The positions are all related to System or software engineering or in project or program management. If interested, please call me at 714/446-2030.