SOA Consortium Announces Jim Johnson, Chairman, Standish Group
to be Featured Speaker at Next General Meeting
Meeting to take place June 25-26, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Needham, MA, USA – April 22, 2008 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that Jim Johnson, Chairman, Standish Group, will be the featured guest speaker at the next general meeting June 25-26, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His presentation will cover Trends in Service Oriented Architecture. He will also be giving a plenary presentation on Trends in Open Source to the joint SOA Consortium, OMG lunch session on Wednesday, June 25. For more information on the meeting and to register, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/standish-pr. 

Presentation Overview: Trends in SOA
The implementation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers many benefits to organizations as they work toward realizing the potential of true business agility. The Trends in SOA talk discusses The Standish Group’s research study of the top 10 drivers that are influencing decisions on how IT implements SOA. The research study report identifies, defines, and analyzes the top 10 drivers in the SOA marketplace. It breaks down each driver into several areas and explains the reasons why they are affecting the adoption of SOA.

Plenary Presentation Overview: Trends in Open Source
Open Source software raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software product organizations. The Trends in Open Source talk discusses The Standish Group’s research study of the top 10 drivers that are influencing decisions on how IT is adopting open source technology.

About the Speaker
Mr. James (Jim) H. Johnson is the founder and chairman of The Standish Group. He has been professionally involved in the computer industry for over 40 years and has a long list of published books, papers, articles and speeches. He has a combination of technical, marketing, and research achievements focused on mission-critical applications and technology. He is best known for his research on transactional middleware, as well as project and system failures. Jim is a pioneer of modern research techniques and continues to advance in the research industry through virtual focus groups and case-based analytical technology.

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on June 25-26, 2008. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

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About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, SAP AG, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org. 

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