Doing the benchmark shuffle: Tom Yager found a kindred spirit in Microsoft's Greg Leake - he and his team are tasked with benchmarking Java application servers against .Net. After a tough grilling on his processes, Leake gets the Yager Seal of Approval for selecting a bnechmark that trod the straight and narrow - and resulted in a fair measurements. Read all the details in this week's Ahead of the Curve column. Doing the benchmark shuffle: Tom Yager found a kindred spirit in Microsoft’s Greg Leake – he and his team are tasked with benchmarking Java application servers against .Net. After a tough grilling on his processes, Leake gets the Yager Seal of Approval for selecting a bnechmark that trod the straight and narrow – and resulted in a fair measurements. Read all the details in this week’s Ahead of the Curve column.A New York state of mind: Say hello to our newest blog, New York CTO. Written by Jon Williams, the CTO of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the blog seeks to “assist great technologists become great managers, with (hopefully) significantly less pain than I went through. It’s not hard (like writing a new operating system or learning a new programming language is hard), but it does require a different approach, a different point of view.” Sound good? Read more of Jon’s posts here. Technology Industry