Re: [wsdm] RE:

[David Snelling <David.Snelling@UK.Fujitsu.com>]

Folks,

On 22 Apr 2005, at 14:35, Carol Geyer wrote:

> Congratulations!
>  
> From a PR standpoint, the good news is, interops are usually very well 
> received. The bad news is, private interops don't generate the kind of 
> press the WSDM team deserves. My advise would be to re-stage this at a 
> public forum, where we could get more mileage by promoting this to 
> editors and analysts as the first WSDM OASIS InterOp. Dee Schur 
> handles InterOp outreach for OASIS, and I'm sure she'd be happy to 
> work with you to identify the best conference for something like this. 
> Last week's WS-Security OASIS InterOp at the Gartner WS Summit was a 
> big hit. I'd love to see something similar for WSDM. Would the TC be 
> interested in pursuing a public event?

I believe that we should hold off on a big public interop until we have 
a set of specs where all the parts are stable. It would be interesting 
therefore to consider this big splash activity in conjunction with WSRF 
and WSN sometime in the late Autumn.

>  
> Carol
>
> From: Heather Kreger [mailto:kreger@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
> Cc: jamie.clark@oasis-open.org; wsdm@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:
>
>
> Hi Carol,
>
> The WSDM TC is pleased to report that it has conducted a successful 
> internal interopability testing event at the WSDM April F2F.
> Six vendors participated, CA, Dell, Data Power,  HP, Hitachi, IBM, and 
> Tibco.
>
> Overall, We had 10 resources (6 Web servies, 2 Servers, and 2 
> Blackberry PDAs) and 4 managers, giving 33 manager/resource 
> combinations of which 6 were unattempted. 27 manager/resource 
> combinations were attempted and had some level of interoperability 
> success.
>
> 218 acts were defined, of which 145 were attempted, of which 113 were 
> successful and 32 were not successful.
>
> 67% of acts defined were attempted.  52% of all acts defined were 
> tested successfully.  78% of all acts attempted were tested 
> successfully.
>
> We had a tremendous amount of acts that were available to test, I 
> think if we'd had another day, we'd have had a great number more 
> tested and tested successfully.
> I want to thank everyone for the tremendous energy and time that they 
> put into participating in the interop.
>
> Is this a message that can be put in the OASIS news letter?  Any other 
> press we can do on this?
>
> Heather Kreger
> STSM, Web Services Lead Architect for SWG Emerging Technologies
> Author of "Java and JMX: Building Manageable Systems"
> kreger@us.ibm.com
> 919-543-3211 (t/l 441)  cell:919-496-9572
>
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