VOSibilities

Have you ever wished you could sit back, pop open a beverage of choice and have a stimulating technical discussion about SOA, ESBs and the latest in enterprise application development with the leading experts driving these technologies? A talk with no marketing agenda…no sales pitch…a place to really learn something new without having to separate the chaff from the wheat?

Well, wait no longer. On Wednesday, 12 November, 2008, at 9am ET, 6am PT, 14:00 GMT, Active Endpoints and WSO2 are holding a live, free call-in and online chat conference at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 in which their technical leaders will discuss the future of SOA development and take questions from attendees. TalkShoe allows people anywhere to participate in a group meeting using call-in phone on landlines or VoIP. Attendees can also use chat to participate in the group discussion. Active Endpoints and WSO2 are hosting this call-in as a way to bridge the gap between our software companies and our users because with today’s social networking technologies, the era of big, remote, you’ll-use-what-we-ship software is over.

Our guests will include:

• Paul Fremantle, CTO, WSO2
• Michael Rowley, Director of Strategy and Technology, Active Endpoints
• Luc Clement, Director of Product Management, Active Endpoints

These three distinguished technologists will discuss any number of topics, including:

• How Java developers can leverage their current skills in the new world of web services
• Why an open-source ESB is a fundamentally smart way to integrate many different services
• What, exactly, is “orchestration” and why do I care about it?

But the real beauty of this call-in show is that the discussion will go wherever the attendees take it. So, please join us with your questions at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357.

How to join a TalkShoe call-in:

Dial this number: +1 724 444 7444 (long distance and/or toll charges apply); then enter this call id when prompted: 31357, then the # key, OR

Go to http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/31357 15 minutes before the start time and a web chat client will automatically start, OR

For VoIP users:

a. Download and install TalkShoe Live Pro here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/download/1 and search for call id 31357 OR
b. Use any SIP-standard softphone including Gizmo, SJphone, and X-Lite. Skype is not SIP-compliant but you can use SkypeOut to call 724-444-7444 (note: Skype charges for this). The address for Gizmo is 123@66.212.134.192; the address for SJphone and most other VoIP clients is 66.212.134.192.

We are pleased to make available replays of our recent webinar with WSO2 entitled Mainstream SOA: Next-generation application development for the rest of us.

In this webinar, Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2 and Mike Moniz, product manager here at Active Endpoints, describe and demonstrate SOA development tools that precisely meet today’s requirements. With the global economic situation deteriorating daily, enterprises, organizations and governments need SOA-based application development systems more than ever to be able to do more with less and respond to these challenging times. SOA is a natural response to the crisis and therefore, SOA adoption is accelerating.

Better yet, because of the cost savings and productivity SOA-based BPM systems yield, tough economic times mean that more and more organizations are looking beyond the bloatware of proprietary systems from IBM, Oracle and SAP and towards open-source and standards-based SOA systems like ActiveVOS and WSO2 ESB. In this webinar, you will see SOA software products, based on open standards like BPEL and BPMN, that are at the same time accessible, affordable and offer capabilities far beyond the piece-parts solutions from old-line legacy SOA providers,

This webinar replay even has more than a little excitement in it. At about 50 minutes, we lost the voice phone bridge. You can either skip forward about three minutes, at which time we restored the audio or you can enjoy the drama in my voice as I switch first to VoIP, then back to the phone. We do recommend that you listen to the Q&A starting at about 54 minutes as there is some very good discussion in that part of the replay.

Finally, I’ve posted multiple versions of the webinar as well as a PDF of the slides we presented. Podcast subscribers will automatically received the iPod-formatted .m4v file. This file is about 137MB in size. Also available are a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file at about 95MB and a DivX-encoded .avi at 423MB. When you play the .m4v file on the blog, it plays at 320×240 so it will fit on the page. But the file itself plays at 640×280 in iTunes or in QuickTime. Both the .wmv and .avi have much higher resolution and if you have the bandwidth, please feel free to download any or all of these episodes.

We hope you enjoy learning about how you can affordably develop, deploy and manage BPM applications using the latest SOA technology, and we welcome your comments.

 

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WSO2 and Active Endpoints are hosting a joint webinar  focusing on ESB and how to use a BPEL- and BPMN-based BPM system for best results on Tuesday, October 28 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT. Details are in the press release attached below and you can register at http://www.activevos.com/mainstream.

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