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NASA Blasts Off with XQuery

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Jupitermedia company. Here's what Mike Ritchson, a Systems Integrator
working on the project team, had to say about his experiences using XQuery:
"It's rare in this business that you come across a software technology that
is more powerful, easier to use, faster, actually lets us increase
application requirements, and not to mention, is free to use -- but in
truth, that was our experience with XQuery and we were thrilled with the
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To me, the bottom line for choosing XQuery was
satisfaction -- to make our managers happy and also our customer, NASA." These tools include XQuery code
completion, visual tools to run and preview XQuery scripts, and visual XML
editors to work with XML, DTD, XML Schema, and Web Services (SOAP)
structures. Nick Stavros, Ph. who follows innovative new technologies.com/tigerlogic.Net
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Mr. Ritchson continued: "XQuery has really opened the door to how an
application can be designed, developed and deployed.

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technical information source for application development professionals. Recently, DynCorp,
the contractor for NASA's Johnson Space Center Aircraft Operations Division
in Houston, Texas, turned to XQuery to help simplify their XML data
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PRESS RELEASE XQuery Use Growing: DevX Poll

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Russell Jones, Executive Editor at DevX." To
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"A recent DevX online poll suggests a substantial and growing interest in
XQuery technologies among the DevX readership of software and IT
professionals , even though the XQuery specification itself is still in
development," said Dr. "It's also significant because our readers aren't
exclusively XML developers, but rather come from such diverse technological
backgrounds.
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In the past, we were
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the leading provider of XML tools for advanced data integration, today
announced the results of a DevX online poll which shows that a majority of
software developers currently use or plan to use XQuery technologies. A. Developers also depend on DataDirect to
radically simplify complex data integration projects using XML products
based on the emerging XQuery and XQJ standards.

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According to the non-scientific poll of 302 software developers, 43% said
that "We implemented XQuery and it 's incredibly useful"; another 16% said
that "We'll be using [XQuery] soon, too.

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