LIVE WEBCAST INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION

WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE ROAD IN OPEN STANDARDS: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW ECONOMY

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Open to the public.
Limit of 60 participants. Registration necessary.

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In the eBusiness world, a multitude of businesses and marketplaces are attempting to interact. Pivotal to this interaction is the existence of a common infrastructure, including a mechanism to locate software services and to share these services. Key eBusiness industry standards, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML); Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI); Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and other web-based industry standards are emerging.

What is the degree of importance of open standards in the expanding eBusiness Economy? What challenges exist for common standards in this area? Coopetition is seen as a hallmark of the New Economy. For instance, SOAP, as an open standards-based interoperable protocol that uses XML and provides a common messaging format to link together applications and services anywhere via the Internet, is a result of IBM, Ariba, Microsoft, and other industry leaders working together. What is the future of industry leaders working together for common web-based industry standards? Do proprietary solutions have a place in the future of eBusiness and eMarketplaces? In what ways can large and small companies as well as industry organizations assist in bringing greater efficiency for the integration of technology across and between enterprises? What milestones have been met for web-based industry standards over the last year and which ones are still to be achieved? And…now that the market is slowing down and re-stabilizing with the collapse B2C and B2B companies, what impact does this have on open standards?

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