InfoWorld.com articles from December 2007

InfoWorld.com archives from December 2007

AJAX benefits, issues cited by Zimbra exec; Scott Dietzen, CTO, charts and champions his company's use of JavaScript as base of its open source Web 2.0 platform.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill While AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) may have issues with security and performance, Zimbra still sees AJAX as the best way to deliver experiences on the Web and has based its open source Web 2.0 platform on...

Autonomy to offer first remote legal hold application; Desktop Legal Hold finds documents relevant to a litigation whether or not they have been deleted.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz On Monday, December 3, the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), Autonomy, an archiving and e-discovery company, announced Desktop Legal Hold, calling it an industry first....

Adobe upgrades, cuts price on video streaming software; Adobe Flash Media Server 3 supports streaming high-definition video at lowered prices for both the low-scale and high-performance model.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Adobe Systems is announcing Tuesday its Adobe Flash Media Server 3 products, enabling streaming of high-definition video at a lower price point. Instead of pricing its software at a range of from $4,500 to $45,000...

Understanding OpenID and CardSpace; OpenID and CardSpace are at the forefront of user-centric identity. Here's how they work.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Phillip J. Windley User-centric identity, which puts users at the center of identity transactions, is fast capturing the attention of the Web-minded world. In fact, many traditional organizations are looking to blend user-centric...

Federating identity for the Web; User-centric innovations CardSpace and OpenID may finally bring the promise of federation within reach.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Phillip J. Windley Federated identity has long been a goal of many IT organizations. One look at the promise of federation, and it is easy to see why. After all, empowering one organization to serve as an identity provider for...

Stratus' fault-tolerant, RHEL juggernaut; The Stratus ftServer 4400 is big, pricey, standard Linux, and unstoppable, surviving dire hardware failures without a hiccup.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Paul Venezia The last time I had a Stratus server in the lab, it was the ftServer W Series 4300, back in January 2006 (see my review). That was a Windows-based system, and discussions with Stratus about Linux distributions showed...

Metastorm to acquire Spotlight Data; Acquisition of process discovery tool will enhance BPM suite.
December 4, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz In a move to round out its recent spate of purchases in the BPM space, Metastorm announced on Tuesday that it will acquire Spotlight Data, a company that specializes in process data collection. Process data...

Salesforce launches data-sharing technology; Salesforce to Salesforce will allow users to integrate data with partners.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Mashups and Web services in the enterprise are old news. But IT has paid little more than lip service to Web services that span business processes across the extraprise. However, with Wednesday’s...

Google picks iPhone for launch of new mobile app; iPhone's browser capabilities make it the first choice over smartphone rivals Nokia and BlackBerry for single Google navigation bar.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Google released today an iPhone application that puts Google's numerous services into a single interface on a navigation toolbar. Over time, the application will be available for other mobile devices, said Gummi...

Microsoft offers Volta preview for Web apps development; Volta, which requires Visual Studio 2008, features declarative tier-splitting for server and client parts, and SaaS apps are enabled.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft is releasing on Wednesday a technology preview of its Volta Web developer toolset, which is intended to make it easier to build multitier Web applications, including applications useful in SaaS (software as a...

ClearApp gauges Oracle SOA Suite performance; QuickVision 7.5 can now drill down into transactions, delivering metrics and measurement to Oracle SOA Suite users.
December 6, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill ClearApp is upgrading its application service management product, QuickVision, delivering metrics and measurement to Oracle SOA Suite users. QuickVision 7.5 enables Oracle users in heterogeneous environments to view...

Microsoft looks to make data access easier for developers; ADO.Net Entity Framework beta offered; ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions preview also planned.
December 6, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Focusing on development of data-centric applications, Microsoft released on Thursday Beta 3 of the ADO.Net Entity Framework and plans to release shortly a preview of ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions. ADO.Net Entity Framework...

ENTERPRISE INSIGHT: Morgan Stanley's stocking full of tech trends; Based on big growth in consumer and enterprise tech this year, Morgan Stanley predicts a very happy 2008.
December 6, 2007... Byline: David L. Margulius With 2008 almost here, it's a good time to stop and think about the really big picture for next year. What matters most in tech? What are the megatrends that might affect your job or career? What cool toys will...

Trolltech pours on the Java dev goodness; Iconic GUI toolkit vendor brings its rich toolkit recipe to Java.
December 6, 2007... Byline: Andrew Binstock The world of Java depends on two established GUI toolkits: Swing and SWT (standard widget toolkit). Both software packages provide the widgets, controls, menus, and user interface components in most Java...

Ruby on Rails 2.0 released for Web apps; Web framework emphasizes REST Web services.
December 7, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open source Web application development framework, was released this morning, said the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, on Friday. Key to this release is...

SECURITY ADVISER: Keep security advice current; Cliches about safe computing behavior aren't enough, because e-mail, surfing, and patching vulnerabilities change all the time.
December 7, 2007... Byline: Roger A. Grimes Remember when computer security was simple? Advice was as easy as, "Don't boot with a floppy drive in your A: drive" and "Don't enable the macro to run." Boy, do I long for the days of yesteryear. More and...

STORAGE INSIDER: When you shop for storage hardware, bring a lawyer; Thanks to such regulations as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, choosing your storage hardware may have legal implications.
December 7, 2007... Byline: Mario Apicella Is there a worse time to start thinking of what to put in next year’s storage budget than just before the holidays? Probably not , but setting aside the nuts and bolts of storage now so that you can focus on...

Answer key: You don't know tech; The facts behind this week’s top 10 tech questions.
December 7, 2007... Byline: Dan Tynan Now that you know how you scored, you probably want to know why. Check out the answers below for the gory details. And be sure to return next week for another news quiz, ripped straight from the tech headlines. ...

Mob wisdom means business; So-called 'crowdsourcing' lets companies create massive focus groups, garner fresh ideas, and even predict the future.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Lena West Crowdsourcing, mob wisdom, interactive ideation, artificial AI -- call it what you will, but the idea of tapping external collaborators to develop or enhance products and services is far from revolutionary. What is...

BlueNote Network to offer APIs for unified communications; Web services will multiply reach of notification and IVR across channels.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz BlueNote Networks, a communications middleware vendor, will announce today two Web service APIs for its SOA Edition of SessionSuite middleware. The Outbound Notification Solution Framework (On-SF) and the...

Cenzic virtualizes Web apps testing; Companies wary of the impact of vulnerability scanning on their programs may find relief in Cenzic's virtual scanning, which scans exact replicas of apps.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Web applications security testing specialist Cenzic announced the latest version of its flagship scanning platform on Monday, adding new capabilities for inspecting programs utilizing virtualization technologies made by...

Intel adds encryption to vPro; Embedded security features, code-named Danbury, make application encryption easier, add new layer of hard drive protection.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Intel is preparing to introduce a new set of security features in its next-generation vPro microprocessors that have been designed to extend the reach of encryption applications and make the systems easier to install and...

Microsoft forging dev tool, database links; Making Visual Studio 2008 work with SQL Server 2008 will require a patch, official says.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft has been working to link the upcoming SQL Server 2008 database to the company's software development platforms, with some glitches found along the way, according to two separate Microsoft blog posts. Using...

Iona upgrades open, closed source SOA technologies; Artix, Fuse product lines are refreshed in Iona Technology's extensive upgrade.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill On Monday, Iona Technologies is updating its Artix and Fuse SOA product lines, which feature the Artix closed source enterprise service bus and the Fuse open source technologies. Iona offers a distributed approach to...

Red Hat offers JBoss Developer Studio IDE; Open source technologies bundled, tooling and runtime featured.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Red Hat on Monday is shipping JBoss Developer Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE that bundles open source tooling and runtime software so that developers do not need to gather these components themselves. Featuring JBoss...

Microsoft Office Live Workspaces misses the mark; Microsoft’s new online document sharing solution is intuitive, useful, and free, but offers little innovation and a stale feature set.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Randall C. Kennedy After an excruciatingly drawn-out development process, Microsoft’s Office Live Workspaces -- the company’s attempt to marry Microsoft Office to the emerging Web services “cloud” -- is...

Coghead launches VAR program for online app dev; Affiliate program from one of the first companies to offer a hosted platform for Web 2.0 application development represents yet another shift to the Web.
December 11, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Coghead, one of the first companies to offer a hosted platform for Web 2.0 application development, will announce on Tuesday an affiliate program targeted at VARs (Value Added Resellers), system integrators, and...

Study says mobile content ready to explode in India; Boston Analytics says market size is 100 million cell phone subscribers and growing at rate of 50 percent a year, making India the next big mobile market.
December 11, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Boston Analytics, a market research firm, all but said to U.S. mobile application developers and other content providers, "Pack your bags and move east," but to India, not to the east coast. The reason,...

Coverity looks to thwart race conditions in apps; The spread of multi-threaded software means increased risk, which Coverity looks to head off with its latest Prevent SQS code analysis software.
December 11, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Looking to prevent race conditions that can wreak havoc in software, Coverity is adding concurrency defect detection capabilities to its Coverity Prevent SQS (Software Quality System) static code analysis software for C,...

Sun to discontinue developer tools in favor of NetBeans; Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio Enterprise to be halted; NetBeans 6.0 shipping on Wednesday.
December 11, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems plans to discontinue its Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator developer tools and encourage users to move to the NetBeans IDE, the company said Tuesday. Version 6.0 of the IDE is...

BEA adds Eclipse to ESB in SOA move; AquaLogic Service Bus, WebLogic Integration are refreshed and anchored to the Eclipse platform as part of BEA's Workspace 360 strategy.
December 12, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Emphasizing SOA, BEA Systems is unveiling upgrades to its enterprise service bus and legacy integration package on Wednesday, anchoring them to the Eclipse platform as a standard dashboard for controlling these products....

Adobe open-sourcing data access technology; Remoting, messaging, and Action Message Format protocol being opened up.
December 12, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS. The technology is leveraged in enterprise...

Preview: VMware Infrastructure 3 update builds on the base; VI3 with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 beefs up server virtualization management with automated patching, virtual disk migration, planning and migration wizardry, and distributed power management; embedded ESX shows purple in the late beta.
December 12, 2007... Byline: Paul Venezia VMware Infrastructure 3 is a hard act to follow (see the review). When VI3 was originally released, it not only set the bar for all virtualization solutions in its wake, but was so polished that many shops put it into...

Spring Integration boosts service-based apps; The Java technology makes things easier for developers by easing the enterprise integration of apps.
December 13, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill SpringSource, the keepers of the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, this week introduced Spring Integration, a framework to ease enterprise integration. Spring Integration is intended to...

ENTERPRISE INSIGHT: Getting entrepreneurial in 2008; A fond farewell from an intrepid columnist, who exits offering shameless self-promotion for two adrenaline-boosting ventures.
December 13, 2007... Byline: David L. Margulius When I wrote my first InfoWorld article back in December 2001, I had absolutely no clue what I was talking about. Reading back over that masterpiece, "Dawn of the real-time enterprise," is scary. I didn't...

Mu Security Analyzer busts vulnerabilities with the greatest of ease; Mu-4000 fuzzer shines with wizard-driven test configuration, intelligent workflow, excellent vulnerability profiling, and auto-generated zero-day exploits.
December 13, 2007... Byline: Roger A. Grimes I first came across the Mu Security Analyzer when a co-worker on a multi-company government project raved about how the appliance found a zero-day vulnerability in an e-mail inspection device that was protecting a...

Bugs at the core delay AMD's next-gen chips; Confirming what many in the chip world have suspected, AMD execs fessed up that bugs in its new quad-core Barcelona server and Phenom desktop chips will delay these key next-generation technologies for at least three months.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder With Christmas just 11 days away, you have to wonder what Hector Ruiz is going to find under his tree. It's been a terrible year for Advanced Micro Devices, and the chipmaker's analysts conference on Thursday did...

Malware flood driving new AV; Symantec researchers say number of malicious applications is rapidly outpacing the volume of legitimate programs, forcing some to rethink AV, defense tactics.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines During a weeklong period in mid-November, security experts with Symantec observed roughly 65,000 new applications being downloaded onto the computers of customers participating in a new research project -- based on their...

SaaSWizard offers app dev for SaaS; Apps can be quickly assembled without programming, company says.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill SaaSWizard is announcing Monday its SaaSWizard 2.0 rapid application development platform for building SaaS and internally hosted applications, sans programming. Positioned for hosted business-to-business...

SECURITY ADVISER: Ask better password questions; By asking better password reset questions, you'll keep passwords more secure.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Roger A. Grimes I just love how many Web sites take my complex, hard-to-guess password and make it as easy to crack as guessing my favorite color or the city of my birth. It seems nearly every Web site comes with user-accessible,...

STORAGE INSIDER: New fast lanes to storage; Does virtualization leave you hungry for faster storage systems? New chip from PMC-Sierra may provide the answer.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Mario Apicella Cutting through the sales-pitch hype of Tier 1 vendor presentations often means checking in with their suppliers. After all, conversations with suppliers tend to reflect what Tier 1 vendors ask of them. Less...

Answer key: You don't know tech; The facts behind this week’s top 10 tech questions.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Dan Tynan Now that you know how you scored, you probably want to know why. Check out the answers below for the gory details. And be sure to return next week for another news quiz, ripped straight from the tech headlines. ...

Veracode pitches backdoor apps security; Veracode says its unique binary code analysis technique is the only way to find backdoors short of using manual code reviews.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Veracode launched a new version of its binary code analysis service on Monday that focuses specifically on helping software engineers find potential backdoor vulnerabilities in their programs. While some applications...

Google revs up security play; Search giant lays plans to extend Postini security service into a multifaceted filtering system built to lock down business data and help manage compliance requirements.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Far from being a major player in IT security today, Google has ambitious designs on becoming a big name in the burgeoning hosted security market, begging the question, Will your organization ever be ready to let the...

JetBrains adds Ruby, Groovy to Java IDE; Plug-ins available for dynamic languages.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill JetBrains on Monday is unveiling plug-ins enabling users of its IntelliJ Idea IDE to accommodate Groovy and Ruby programming. Rooted in Java development, the IDE is being expanded to accommodate newly popular dynamic...

True crime: The botnet barons; Two weeks ago, the feds revealed the names of eight people who had used botnets to engage in nefarious activity. Here are their stories.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Andrew Brandt When federal agents announced on November 29 that they'd indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in criminal activity,...

Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation; Version 1.5 of extensible, modular desktop VM platform shines with unique virtualization features.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Randall C. Kennedy What a difference a year makes! When I first reviewed innotek’s VirtualBox, in version 1.3, I found a product with tremendous potential marred by some annoying stability and performance issues. Since then,...

Microsoft releases Dynamics CRM 4.0 to manufacturing; Latest version targeted at VAR channel with improved multi-tenant capabilities.
December 18, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Targeted mainly at its VAR (Value Added Reseller) channel, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Version 4.0 was released to manufacturing this week. Version 4.0, code-named Titan, will be available in several versions: an...

Microprocessor giants settle with Patriot Scientific; NEC, Panasonic, and Toshiba settle patent case, while AMD and Intel still in court on unfair business practices suit.
December 18, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Patriot Scientific and TPL Group, co-holders of the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio [MMPP], announced today that they have settled their suit for patent infringement with JVC, NEC Electronics, Panasonic, and...

Leopard Server: The people's UNIX; Mac OS X v10.5 is true UNIX on the inside, novice admin friendly on the outside, and born for collaboration, with turnkey-simple blog, wiki, IM, and calendar services.
December 18, 2007... Byline: Tom Yager Apple's desktop Macs are incomparably well suited for the full range of uses from general productivity to technical and creative design, with the entire user skill and requirements spectrum covered by a rich, engaging,...

Unlocking encryption management; As encryption technology becomes more user-friendly and manageable, more businesses are adding standalone encryption platforms to their IT security.
December 19, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Someday, encryption features built into a wide range of IT products -- from operating systems and messaging gateways to hard drives and storage systems -- may work in concert to offer central policy enforcement across...

Facebook for the enterprise to launch from third-party ISV; A Facebook overlay accesses organization's security infrastructure.
December 19, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz WorkLight, a Web 2.0 application developer, announced today WorkBook, a Facebook overlay targeted to Facebook users in a corporate environment. WorkBook, a Web 2.0 application that works with WorkLight, the...

Apache, Sun still in disharmony over Harmony; The open-source Java project moves forward with the announced availability of Harmony 5.0 Milestone 4, but disagreement remains over compliance testing.
December 19, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill The Apache Harmony project, serving as an Apache-branded open-source version of Java, is moving forward, but a disagreement remains with Sun over compliance testing. Predating Sun's November 2006 open-sourcing of...

Next-gen virtualization from Microsoft; Preview: Microsoft's Hyper-V platform has an easy install, wizard-based VM creation, a few rough patches, and a couple of hard edges.
December 19, 2007... Byline: Paul Venezia It’s been a rough week for virtualization beta testing, at least for me. Last week, I took a look at a late beta of VMware’s VI3 update (with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5), and was impressed...

Oracle's Ellison: SOA migration a slow process; The Oracle CEO said that SOA requires a change in architecture, which is a slow process, but the company still sees an excellent long-term growth opportunity.
December 20, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Scoffing at reports alleging the adoption of SOA is slowing, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said this week that moving to SOA is a slow process but one that presents an opportunity for Oracle. Speaking on Oracle's earnings...

SECURITY ADVISER: A side of hash; The cryptographic algorithms known as 'hash' can make a huge difference to your data security.
December 21, 2007... Byline: Roger A. Grimes A hash is cryptographic algorithm that attempts to uniquely describe inputted content by outputting a value that is unique for a given piece of inputted content. A good hash algorithm has several characteristics,...

STORAGE INSIDER: HP hones blade management; Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager breaks the chains between servers and networks, freeing HP shops to swap blades with ease.
December 21, 2007... Byline: Mario Apicella To paraphrase a sentence often attributed to Mark Twain, everybody talks about the cost of managing storage, but nobody does anything about it. Well, almost nobody, because a new management application that HP...

Answer key: You don't know tech; The facts behind this week’s top 10 tech questions.
December 21, 2007... Byline: Dan Tynan Now that you know how you scored, you probably want to know why. Check out the answers below for the gory details. And be sure to return in 2008 for another news quiz, ripped straight from the tech headlines. Question...

What the true geek really wanted for Christmas (it's not too late!); Sure, you've got an iPhone. But if you're a real techie, your list would have included these cool toys, too.
December 25, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman Christmas means many things to many people, but the joy of giving to others as well as to oneself is universal. Sometimes, though, those presents from others don't quite fulfill your own cravings. Thus the days after...

Two geeks and an iPhone; Six months after the iPhone's release, InfoWorld checks in to see if the sexy smartphone was actually worth all the hoopla.
December 25, 2007... Byline: Eric Hill, Kevin Railsback It's been six months since Apple's iPhone shipped, so in this three-part video review, our two geeks revisit the iPhone to see if it's really worth the price now that the hoopla has died down. And they...

Herd intelligence benefits IT security; In response to the growing threat of customized malware, security vendors are starting to utilize customers' computers as information collectors.
December 26, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The rise of customized malware is forcing security software vendors to change their tactics quickly and begin using customers' machines as their initial line of threat detection intelligence, according to a new report...

BI is dead; long live BI; 2007's No. 9 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: With three of the largest competitors in the field taken over by software giants, you’d think that the best days of the business intelligence market were over. You’d be wrong. [ Slideshow:...

Blade servers arrive for the masses; 2007's No. 8 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Call it a trend within a trend. Blade servers have become the fastest growing segment of the server market, and for the first time accounted for more than $1 billion in sales during the third quarter of 2007....

End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives; 2007's No. 7 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Some technologies always seem to be “just around the corner.” Seven years ago, there was a big flurry of interest in end-to-end Ethernet (aka metro Ethernet) as a brace of new ventures promised to...

The top 10 underreported technology stories of 2007; InfoWorld presents the 2007 trends and events you may have missed and their implications for the year ahead.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder We at InfoWorld.com like to think that our coverage of the news and trends shaping the enterprise technology world is the best in the business. But not even InfoWorld (not to mention our competitors) can connect all...

Java is becoming the new Cobol; 2007's No. 1 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Java, the oldest new programming language around, is falling out of favor with developers. When it comes to developing the increasingly common rich Internet applications, Java is losing ground to Ruby on...

Hackers take aim at Mac OS X; 2007's No. 3 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: It’s not often that an analyst covering computer security issues tells you that he doesn’t do much to protect his systems. But one reputable analyst I know said just that as we talked about the...

Open source’s new commercial strategy; 2007's No. 6 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: What’s in a name? Back in the days of the Gingrich revolution, the nastiest label you could pin on a politician was “liberal.” And now that open source has become an essential technology,...

Balance of power shifts to software buyers; 2007's No. 10 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Look in the mirror, Mr. or Ms. IT buyer. You’ve got more muscle than ever — and you did it without steroids. [ Slideshow: 2007's top underreported tech stories ] Despite the wave of...

There are some security threats you can worry less about; 2007's No. 4 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Even when there’s good news on the security front, there always seems to be bad news to balance it out. And while we think this news is important for you to know, it’s not an exception to the Good...

Sun Microsystems is back in the game; 2007's No. 2 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Sun Microsystems has been in and out of the (metaphorical) grave more often than Count Dracula. The one-time king of the Internet servers suffered a body blow when the dot-com bubble burst, and since then...

Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits; 2007's No. 5 most underreported tech story.
December 28, 2007... Byline: Bill Snyder The Story: Silicon Valley businesses have long argued that changes in the immigration laws are needed to ensure a continuing supply of highly skilled workers. The current limit of 65,000 under the standard H1-B visas is...