Lead Hat consultants have helped to re-engineer economist.com, the hugely successful on-line arm of international business magazine The Economist. The Economist site has the following features: Operating Systems A heterogeneous environment of Windows NT Server and Sun machines handle web requests and manage content. Application development environments Allaire ColdFusion scripts access, manage and publish textual, graphical and image-based archives held in Oracle databases. Load balancing The Economist web site is widely accessed. Mirrored, load-balanced servers are based in London and New York. Content management The Economist is a weekly magazine with a web site updated daily. Publication runs are supported by regular on-line news and features. If you cannot find what you are looking for, but think we might have the missing ingredient, please contact us to find out.