Dear Sir, I've done exactly as you suggested and search for those exact term on Monster and Dice. Moster (on a nation wide search in the US) returned 4 hits for "Java/J2EE/JEE" and 323 hits for ".NET/C#". On Dice.com "Java/J2EE/JEE" returned 6 hits while ".NET/C#" returned 644 hits. Is there some other search criteria I should try to see the advantage JAVA has?

I'm a huge fan of WAN accelorators (though I prefer the products from Riverbed), but not sure of the fit here (and is certainly isn't anything like what the OP is asking about). First, these devices aren't cheap especially if you need to communicate between tons of locations as seems to be the case here as each location will require a unit. Even the lower-end product in the category will easily run 10k. Second we don't know how much the files being moved once a month are similar. If not a majority identical, this product wouldn't really provide any benefit. If the file is basically identical then you can do the same thing with rsynch or similar for free. Even if they are identical, the functionality you are talking about is based on local caching. Since the files being moved are only moved once a month (depending on other data moving between sites and size of disk cache the unit has) that cached could likely have been cleared by the next months data is moved. Again rendering this expensive solution useless.
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Again, I love WAN acceloration and if properly used and understood in the right situations, it is some of the most useful and worthwhile pieces of kit in any datacenter. However, for the use mentioned. Doesn't seem the right fit to me.

OK, forget the "peering" wording then. If any major backbone provider plans to disconnect ANY type of connection (peering or paid) they should have to give the warning.

At least Sprint did give Cogent the written notice in this case (about 90 days if I recall correctly). However, neither company notified any of thier customers.

I don't know what others have been suggesting for regulation, but I would strongly support two simple regulations on depeering. 1) Provider A must give provider B at least X days notice of intent to depeer (say 180 days) 2) If some agreement isn't reached between provider A and provider B, both providers must notify all thier customers of the planned depeering giving thier customers at least X days notice (say 90) Nothing too invasive, just some basic comsumer protections.

Speaking of MS, I think it would be a very shrewd move for MS to move to ZFS. ZFS, is obviously light-years ahead of any of thier current file systems and if they moved to ZFS it would be a big step towards a new "default" file system amoung computers. Actually all computers except Linux (which is why I think it would be shrewd). If they see Linux as a threat, what better way to jab Linux with a sharp stick than to not only make a massive improvement to your file systems, but also the move would be a big step towards a "defualt" file system that every major OS can support except apparently Linux.

I'm obviously a bit crazy to even think there is a chance of this :-) However, with the complete lack of details about the new Windows 2008 Storage Server I was previously wondering if something like this was taking place. There wouldn't be a better place to begin use of ZFS than the storage server products.

If IBM hasn't already patented the below, I sure plan to!

private decimal IBMPatentValue()
{
   Patent newPatent;

   foreach (Patent oldPatent in PatentOffice.Patents)
   {
      newPatent = oldPatent.Clone();

      //here is the inovative part!!!!!!
      newPatent.Text += " with a computer.";

      newPatent.Submit();
   }

   return decimal.MaxValue;
}