Media alert: Open standards supporters debate SOA at OASIS Symposium

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

For immediate release:

Top executives from BEA Systems, EDS, IBM, Primeton, SAP, and Sun Microsystems
and will debate the progress and future of SOA at the upcoming OASIS Symposium.
In a panel led by Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group, prominent open standards
supporters will address the topic, "Years of Web Services & SOA: You Are Here."

WHEN: Tuesday, 17 April 2007
WHERE: San Diego, California, USA
WHO ATTENDS: Members and non-members of OASIS; all are welcome

DETAILS:
Five years after the Web services standardization process began, leaders in the
open standards community will come together to discuss the state of Web
Services and SOA methods. Panelists will rate current developments and give
their best predictions for the future. 

PANELISTS:

Dave Orchard, Chief Web Services Architect, BEA Systems
JR Jesson, Chief Technology Officer, Application Engineering, EDS
Chris Ferris, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM 
Larry Huang, CTO, Primeton
Claus von Riegen, Director of Web Services Standards, SAP 
Mark Hapner, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems


* The SOA panel is the culmination of the annual OASIS Symposium, where
technical and business professionals explore open standards technologies. The
program will feature some of the industry's most relevant and controversial
topics such as eCommerce, SOA, Web Services, Systems Integration, Content
Management, Security, Information Sharing, and much more. OASIS Standards such
as OpenDocument, WS-BPEL, UBL, DITA, and more will be covered. 

* New This Year:
-OpenDocument Workshop will focus on the implementability of using applications
that comply with the OASIS- and ISO-approved format that enables users of
varying office suites to freely exchange documents. Adoption, accessibility,
programmability, and future enhancements to OpenDocument will be covered. 

-WS-BPEL Workshop will clarify the value this new standard offers for defining
SOA business processes. The event will examine common scenarios in which
WS-BPEL should be applied and explore usage of advanced constructs.
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/wednesday-friday.php

For a detailed schedule of events:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.php

TO REGISTER: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/registration.php

Complimentary press passes are available; contact communications@oasis-open.org
for details.