I am in favor of this being done as an
Open CSA supported activity, if such a thing is allowed. If it is, I hope
that the materials could be made available to the member section for review and
comment (not necessarily approval).
Michael
From: Graham
Barber [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:24
PM
To:
Subject: [opencsa-ms] SCA/SDO Market Awareness Road-show
Dear Steering Committee,
IBM
is planning a set of half-day seminars through the remainder of 2008 to present
and promote SCA/SDO technology from a vendor-neutral viewpoint in order to
raise market awareness of these technologies. We are not promoting IBM products
as part of this initiative, although we will use Tuscany as it's one of the few SCA runtime
offerings available today. The initiative comes from Karla Norsworthy's
Standards organization, not WebSphere's marketing organization, so I emphasize:
it is vendor-neutral. The seminars will be presented by Doug Tidwell, who also
spoke about SCA at JavaOne
this year.
The
first 3 seminars will be in China
at the end of this month. Doug intends to continue in Europe & the USA in ~
October to December. Current details are at: <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/scasdo.html>.
We
are interested in making the Europe/USA seminars either multi-vendor, or even
OASIS Open CSA supported, if the interest exists. We're happy to explore any
option in line with objectives of promoting the technologies, not vendor
products. With greater multi-vendor support, we could expand this initiative
and reach even more developers. Another benefit may be to encourage more real
end-users to join the TCs that will commence in September.
If
there is no interest, then so be it; IBM will continue a more limited program.
If there is interest in doing this as a multi-vendor, or an Open CSA backed
program, please let me know and we can commence some planning, or initiate an
adoption sub-committee; whatever is practical in line with OASIS
guidelines.....
Graham J Barber,
Program Director, SOA Partnerships,
Graham Barber@IBMGB
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