. Portions of this product may be derived from the UNIX ® system, licensed from Novell, Inc., and from the Berkeley 4.3 BSD system, licensed from the University of California. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries and is exclusively licensed by X/Open Company Ltd. Third

There is a growing need for ad-hoc analysis of extremely large data sets, especially at internet companies where innovation critically depends on being able to analyze terabytes of data collected every day. Parallel database products, e.g., Teradata, offer a solution, but are usually prohibitively

This paper describes the motivations and strategies behind our group’s efforts to integrate the Tcl and Java programming languages. From the Java perspective, we wish to create a powerful scripting solution for Java applications and operating environments. From the Tcl perspective, we want to allow for cross-platform Tcl extensions and leverage the use-ful features and user community Java has to offer. We are specifically focusing on Java tasks like Java Bean manipulation, where a scripting solution is preferable to using straight Java code. Our goal is to create a synergy between Tcl and Java, similar to that of Visual Basic and Visual C++ on the Microsoft desktop, which makes both languages more powerful together than they are individually. 1

We examine long-run firm performance following open market share repurchase announcements, 1980-1990. We find that the average abnormal four-year buy-and-hold return measured after the initial announcement is 12.1%. For ‘value ’ stocks, companies more likely to be repurchasing shares because

Express is a trademark of Parasoft Corporation PARIX is a trademark of Parsytec GmbH Sun and SPARC are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of X/Open Company Ltd.

registered trademarks, or service marks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd.

Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of several large software systems that have been developed using an “open source ” development approach, we now have a chance

the zero profit tendency associated with operating in markets open to global competition. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Drift dives and prolonged surfacing periods in Baikal seals: resting strategies in open waters?