Webinars
Open Source SOA and the Management Challenge: The ROI and Reliability of Open Source Composite Applications
Date: December 10, 2008
Time:
02:00 pm US Eastern
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Featured Speakers:
Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Management for the SOA & Business Rules Management System products, Red Hat (bio)
Ed Horst, Vice President Product Strategy, AmberPoint (bio)
Moderator:
David A. Kelly
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An increasing number of IT organizations are leveraging open source SOA platforms to start more projects, faster, at a much lower cost of ownership compared to complex, proprietary platforms. However, these gains in agility and affordability are quickly lost without a comprehensive plan for managing the health and well-being of the resulting composite applications. Join industry leaders JBoss, a division of Red Hat, and AmberPoint for a valuable discussion about planning for a comprehensive SOA deployment and the best approach to managing and governing these systems.
What you’ll learn from attending this webcast:
- The advantages and cost savings from leveraging open source solutions for your SOA initiatives
- The new requirements for governance and management in today’s distributed, composite application environments
- How JBoss, a division of Red Hat, and AmberPoint have integrated their products to ensure open, simplified and reliable SOA systems
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Featured Speaker Bios:
Pierre Fricke is director of product line management for Red Hat's JBoss SOA products. Starting with JBoss Portal and jBPM in 2005, he led the product strategy and management expansion into the integration and SOA market with JBoss Rules, Messaging and Enterprise Service Bus. Today, these products are the unit volume market leader or emerging strong challengers to long-time incumbents. He started working on UNIX at IBM in 1983 as one of the first AIX developers, building experience in data management, operating systems, communication programs, development processes, and customer support. After holding several software development management positions and completing his MBA at the University of Texas in Austin, he became one of the leading strategists and marketing leaders in IBM focusing on interoperability, integration, WebSphere, Windows NT, UNIX, as well as Linux and open source. He led the creation of IBM's "Compete, Leverage, and Interoperate" Windows NT strategy after OS/2 was discontinued and was one of the eight original leaders on the team that lead IBM into Linux and open source in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Fricke joined D. H. Brown Associates, a research analyst firm, as VP of application and integration infrastructure.
Ed Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres.
In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an IT Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.