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• Open Solutions Alliance: ABOUT OSA
  "The Open Solutions Alliance will seek to expand the market for business open source software solutions through cooperative action that increases awareness of member solutions, reduces barriers to customer adoption, facilitates interoperability, and expla
  (tags: osa opensource consortiums advocacy)
• Open Source Unleashed
  Alex Fletcher on the OSA "it will serve the open source community well to explore effective methods of advocacy which helps eliminate some of that knowledge gap...awareness, an open source product is free to prove itself what it often is, an equal if not
  (tags: osa opensource advocacy alex_fletcher)
• JetBlue | About | Our Company | Our Customer Promise
  JetBlue's new Customer Bill of Rights... appears customers can still get stuck on a grounded plane for 5 hours... which earns you a voucher to do it again... what they really need is partnerships with other airlines...no, I wasn't stuck at JFK *this* t
  (tags: jetblue customer_experience)
• Bill Would Punish Retailers for Leaks Of Personal Data - WSJ.com
  "the Massachusetts bill -- a first of its kind -- would make any company, be it retailer, bank or data processor, financially liable if it is operator of the system that is hacked"...applies to any company doing business in MA, regardless of base. Wow!
  (tags: retail hacking security)
• Reactivity acquisition strengthens Cisco's SOA arsenal | IDGNS | News | February 21, 2007 | By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
  "Cisco Systems's acquisition ($135 million) of Reactivity on Wednesday gives the company some key tools it needs to carry out its vision of a services-oriented application architecture centered on the network."
  (tags: cisco aon soa reactivity)
• Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: The Search for a Mentor
  Can anyone help James bridge the six degrees of separation for the folks on his mentor search list? (see James' post). I think mentorship (being one and having one) is critical to success, and definitely not just for newbies...
  (tags: talent_management mentor james)
• gartners_hype_c.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2005; SOA had entered the Trough of Disillusionment with a 2-5 year term to Plateau of Productivity (the good place).
  (tags: soa gartner hype)
• gartner_hype_cycle_2006_large.jpg (JPEG Image, 775x524 pixels)
  Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2006, no specific mention of SOA. However the research relates SOA to new entries MDA and EDA. Did SOA make it out of the trough onto the slope of enlightenment? Is "the peak of inflated expectations" really the chasm cross?
  (tags: soa gartner hype 2006)
• Gartner's 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle Highlights Key Technology Themes
  text supporting Gartner Hype 2006...
  (tags: gartner hype 2006)

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