Having managed delivery of eGovernment services over the Internet for the past 15 years, I’ve lived through the rise of the “Intentions-Based Portal” in programs including IRS.gov, NYC.gov, USAF.gov, USPS.gov, Maryland.gov, Delaware.gov and USDA.gov. The multi-subject, user customized characteristics of these Internet Portals reflected commercial success in community portals like Yahoo, Compuserve and AOL, but were fundamentally budgeted to provide strategic cost-savings via improved government efficiency – by delivering government information and highly-transactional services to constituents. While Yahoo was all about creating a Portal for users’ entertainment, directory assistance, shopping, and social networking, serving both subscribers and advertisers, NYC.gov and other eGovernment Portals were all about more rapid, effective and comprehensive delivery of citizen services – serving both the public and agency employees. Different missions, but similar and overlapping audiences focu...

Just a quick comment noting the increasing availability and demand for TIBCO engineers, developers, architects and other TIBCO job offerings, as TIBCO establishes its strong presence across the Federal Government and Homeland Security IT marketing with its SOA/ESB and BPM offerings, including ActiveMatrix, Silver Spotfire Cloud Business Intelligence and Analytics with Infrastructure Demand Prediction, and all other products and related systems development tools and programming languages. Average salaries range from $80K - $150K for senior architects; it's an employee demand market, so very competitive offerings are available. The TIBCO job market appears to have recovered from its downslide in 2008, and is headed sharply upwards since mid-2009 through now in 2010. Check TIBCO-jobs .com for more info...Specific TIBCO skills being sought at median salaries of $100K and rising include: Software Design/Development, TIBCO Architect, C, HTML, SQL, Java Script, TIBCO BusinessWorks 2.x/5....