Web can refer to:

• Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for catching prey
• World Wide Web or "the Web", a hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving Web pages and transferring files
• Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications
• Web (manufacturing). Many thin materials are processed as webs, continuous sheets passed over rollers. Web offset printing, where the press is fed from a roll of paper rather than individual pages, is a particularly visible application of the principle.
• WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
• Web, John Wyndham's posthumously published novel about an attempt to establish a Utopian civilization on an island populated by spiders
• The World English Bible, a public domain translation of the Bible
• The world's first web browser, see WorldWideWeb.
• The 1942 comic book character, The Web (comics).
• The web of a steel I-beam or truss in construction is the rigid structure, centered between the top and bottom flange, which transfers the structural load to steel columns

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Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:45 -0800
The essentials of complex event processing can be boiled down to three 'Ps' and three 'Cs' -- and even an AEIOU mnemonic by Joe McKendrick
Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:45 -0800
The essentials of complex event processing can be boiled down to three 'Ps' and three 'Cs' -- and even an AEIOU mnemonic by Joe McKendrick
Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:45 -0800
The essentials of complex event processing can be boiled down to three 'Ps' and three 'Cs' -- and even an AEIOU mnemonic by Joe McKendrick
Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:45 -0800
The essentials of complex event processing can be boiled down to three 'Ps' and three 'Cs' -- and even an AEIOU mnemonic by Joe McKendrick
Billing system testing behind Microsoft's SQL Azure outage this week
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:51:24 -0800
Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley
Billing system testing behind Microsoft's SQL Azure outage this week
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:51:24 -0800
Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley

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