Prior to the development of Web services, many enterprises were faced with
very complex and expensive integration projects that were intended to tie a
variety of enterprise business applications together with the goal of
providing a seamless integrated business application platform inside the
enterprise. Today, enterprises are rethinking their approach to integration
strategies now that they are seeing numerous successful cases where companies
are moving forward with the use of Web services.
Although Web services are well on their way to success, enterprises continue
to leverage the combined capabilities of enterprise application integration
suites, message brokers, and data integration platforms to achieve everything
from connecting the disparate applications together t... (more)
Some companies are leveraging open-source software like Linux, JBoss, PHP,
MySQL and Apache SOAP to develop and deploy Web services. As this open-source
Web services stack continues to mature, companies will benefit beyond simply
saving money on license fees; they will be able to assemble the stack and get
a Web service up and running quickly as well.
Developers frustrated by their enterpr... (more)
This lively discussion will take on the controversial questions that everyone
is asking. What are the limits of Linux? How will Open Source change the
industry? What opportunities and risks are associated with the rise of Open
Source? Come join in the discussion, and pose the OS questions that are on
your own high-priority list.
Panelists: Miguel de Icaza (Chief Technology Officer, Novell ... (more)
Today's software industry is moving fast to supply innovative technologies,
new standards, and early customer case studies targeted at fulfilling the
vision of Web services. But as these products, standards, and customers
emerge, it is now time to move beyond using the simple term Web services - it
really misrepresents what is starting to take shape in today's enterprise,
the emergence o... (more)
Some companies are leveraging open-source software like Linux, JBoss, PHP,
MySQL and Apache SOAP to develop and deploy Web services. As this open-source
Web services stack continues to mature, companies will benefit beyond simply
saving money on license fees; they will be able to assemble the stack and get
a Web service up and running quickly as well.
Developers frustrated by their enter... (more)
Bob Zurek is CTO and VP Product Management for Infobright a leading open source data warehouse company. Before joining Infobright, Bob was CTO and VP Products at EnterpriseDB, Bob has also been Director of Strategy with IBM Information Platform and Solutions division. While at IBM, he had the responsibility for driving and executing the technical strategy for IBM's Information Server as it related to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. Zurek has also founded or co-founded several technology startups and has also been VP Technologies and Fellow at Sybase and VP at Powersoft. Zurek is a frequent speaker on topics of middleware technologies and was VP of Product Management and Advanced Technologies at Ascential Software prior to the acquisition of Ascential by IBM.
Jane Hearne
Vincent Kadar
Jill Starr
Christophe Dufourmantelle
Hovhannes Avoyan
Josh Powell
Pawel Plaszczak
Bob Little
Shai Quest
