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****************** AT THE CENTER ****************** The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: Executive Sponsors Affiliate Sponsor CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com Past copies of our newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the website. ALL PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE CENTER UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE. ***NO PUB: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2000 ***CHALLENGE- THE- EXPERT PANEL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2000
"THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET" ***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2000 ***INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2000 Steffen Frost and Scott Feamster were recipients of the Gold Packages offered by IBM and raffled through the Center to attend the XML DevCon in San Jose, held November 12-15. Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs, also attended with an IBM sponsored Gold Package. Below they share their thoughts and experiences. VENILDE JERONIMO The Center THANKS IBM for providing a few individuals associated with the Center the opportunity to attend the XML DevCon 2000! IBM was one of the Premier Corporate Sponsors of XML DevCon 2000 along with Sun Microsystems, Merant, and Microsoft. IBM and Sun Microsystems are Sponsors of the Center and the Center looks forward to continuing to provide programs on topics related to open standards, a topic of interest to our Sponsors. On January 17, 2001, with the support of IBM, the Center will be hosting a webcast on the topic of open standards and the future of eBusiness. Look for further information in upcoming newsletters. This is a program not to miss! The XML DevCon 2000 opened with a keynote presentation by Bob Sutor, Program Director, eBusiness Standards Strategy, IBM Corporation. I was aware of Mr. Sutor as he had delivered a well attended pre-Pub Talk on SOAP 1.1 at the Center on July 6, 2000. You may recall that SOAP was announced in April 2000 by IBM, Microsoft and several other companies as an important building block for the next important model for business on the Internet. SOAP was also a topic of interest to developers and vendors at the San Jose conference. In his XML DevCon address, "XML and Web Services: Bringing Order to B2B on the Web," Mr. Sutor said that the primary mission is to assure the global availability of information through the interoperability of data and workflows. IBM is committed to its XML strategy to support standards via open source and enable eBusiness solutions. Overall, the conference reinforced that XML will clearly be a "key" standard alongside the already established successful standards such as HTML, HTTP, and URL. There was much discussion around "ebXML as a set of specifications that together enable a modular electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML-based messages." ebXML, as reinforced by Duane Nickull, XML Global, is currently the only complete and integrated B2B busines infrastructure to assure global eMarketplaces. ebXML is a joint initiative of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS, developed with global participation. Below, Steffan Frost and Scott Feamster, regulars at the Center's Thursday Pub and other programs, point out many other important developments and hot topics at the XML DevCon 2000. STEFFEN FROST SCOTT FEAMSTER Clearly, the XML DevCon 2000 clearly united developers with vendors. Also, it clearly established that infrastructure is hot and that XML is here. It featured six keynoters and six tracks that kept 3,000+ participants fully engaged and excited over four days running morning through evening. The keynoters represented leading gurus and industry leading companies. Bob Sutor, IBM, described Web services as the unifying eBusiness model. Web services are self-describing, self-contained, standards-based, modular applications that can be plug-and-played to deliver total eBusiness solutions. Their primary mission is to assure the global availability of information through the interoperability of data and workflows. He announced IBM's XML strategy to 1) support standards through open source, 2) enable its entire product line, and 3) build eBusiness solutions. Ed Julson, Sun Microsystems, endorsed ebXML as the unifying eBusiness infrastructure. ebXML is the only complete and integrated B2B business infrastructure, which is needed to assure global electronic marketplaces. It is sponsored by the UN and OASIS and actively promoted by IBM, Microsoft and Sun. He promised Sun's commitment to assure that ebXML is open, simple, low cost, modular, and evolutionary. Greg Hope, Microsoft, emphasized the design challenges in achieving Web services. N-tier programming models are needed for n-tier applications. Metadata models will help applications synchronize. Transaction models will manage failures within and across trust domains. Personal state models will assure secure identities. He explained Microsoft's technology roadmap. Charles Goldfarb, ML inventor, described how his HARP model can unify data and document exchange. Human thought is abstracted, rendered, and presented by computer. The technical separation of presentation oriented publishing and message oriented middleware is dysfunctional. He championed XML as it provides freedom for data, developers, and enterprises. Tim Bray, XML guru and Antarcti.ca, described how XML will help eBusiness be fun, fast, and content-rich. Standards are successful when they solve heroic problems; XML will join HTML, URL, and HTTP as a successful standard. He explained that P2P will have a greater impact on eBusiness than B2C and B2B because it voluntarily draws champions and users. John Goodson, Merant, described the XML challenges in performance, enterprise features, and data transformations. The software development panel championed standards and discussed how new devices will drive new applications. The XML community meeting discussed standards processes. The OASIS meeting emphasized the importance of conformance tests. Six conference tracks assured an interesting session for every time slot from Sunday through Wednesday. Evening sessions squeezed value into every minute of every day. The tracks covered applied XML/eBusiness, Java/scripting, wireless/messaging, servers/middleware, query/schema/database, and developer techniques. By Wednesday participants were thoroughly educated and exhausted. Although no participant list was published, it appears that participants were about 80% software developers with varied XML experiences. The remaining 20% were CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and other high level managers. All major IT companies and many other F1000 companies were represented. The diverse participant backgrounds and informal, energetic atmosphere facilitated an intensive learning environment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION *************************************** DESCRIPTION It is a given that the Internet is transforming business, education, entertainment -- almost every aspect of our lives. And we know that even larger changes are coming as the Internet becomes faster, more robust, and more versatile. Mr. John Patrick, IBM's Vice President of Internet Technology and one of the Internet's leading visionaries, believes the next generation of the Internet is about more than just high-speed networks. Mr. Patrick will delineate his vision of the characteristics that will be specific for the next generation of the Internet -- a network that will be fast, always on, everywhere, natural, easy, intelligent and trusted. According to Mr. Patrick, the NGi is going to have a profound impact on the way people do business, the way they interact with others and, more importantly, provide significant advances in ease-of-life. Finally, Mr. Patrick will discuss new insight into where the B2B eMarketplaces are headed. ABOUT JOHN PATRICK John Patrick is Vice President of Internet Technology at IBM Corporation. He joined the company in 1967 and spent the first half of his career in various sales, marketing and management positions. He helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM Thinkpad brand. Since the early 1990's, Mr. Patrick has dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, he is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences inspiring new applications and innovative ways for consumers and businesses to use the Internet to help meet their goals. Mr. Patrick is spearheading a task force focused on the next generation of the Internet. In addition, he serves as Chairman of the Global Internet Project, a group of executives from a cross-section of international companies working to ensure private sector leadership in the development of the Internet. In addition, Mr. Patrick is a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the advisory boards of ThirdAge Media, space.com, IntraLinks, and Neoteny. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, a M.S. in Management from the University of South Florida and an LL.B in law from LaSalle University. An individual who leads by example, you can access further information about Mr. Patrick and his activities through his innovative personal website: http://www.ibm.com/patrick. ABOUT IBM CORPORATION At IBM, we strive to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. And our worldwide network of IBM solutions and services professionals translates these advanced technologies into business value for our customers. For further information please refer to http://www.ibm.com. REGISTRATION To register please send name, title, company, email address and telephone number to: Sara K. Dean
In today's market, telcos, ASPs, ISPs and other companies must continually reinvent themselves by adding new services in order to compete. Many turn to Internet infrastructure companies in order to capture the services they need to win new business and retain existing customers. Today's customers are beginning to demand customized solutions. The key to choosing these technologies is flexibility to offer specific solutions. Mr. Barhydt will discuss how companies can remain competitive in tomorrow's market by outsourcing customizable, integratable real-time communications infrastructure while retaining brand identity. ABOUT METEOR Meteor (http://www.meteor.com) is an infrastructure company that significantly enhances the performance and effectiveness of business communications. Meteor envisions a world in which communication is as rich and effective online as it is face-to-face. The company's mission is to develop the infrastructure and deliver the tools that enable real-time communication, collaboration and business transactions online. Meteor's interactive communications platform enables business people to generate new ideas, make decisions and share information via simple to use, media-rich forums unconstrained by time, place or technology. ABOUT WILLIAM BARHYDT William Barhydt helped start Netscape's European operations as Technical Director of the Strategic Sales group. He was responsible for large eCommerce projects in ten countries and also built the Central European Professional Services organization. Prior to Netscape, Mr. Barhydt was Senior Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where he designed and built large scale trading platforms within the Fixed Income Research group for new trading desks. Mr. Barhydt started his career working for the U.S. Government, first at the CIA in the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research and later at NASA, where he oversaw research projects in distributed graphics systems and groupware technologies. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Mr. William Barhydt *************************************** This Panel is a follow-up to the Center's May 2000 Panel on "eProcurement & The Future of Internet Trading Communities/Online Exchanges." Our panelists will focus on a series of eMarketplace issues, providing the basis for an interactive knowledge exchange with our audience participants during the evening. PANEL Mr. Robert Fraser, Founder and Chairman, NetSales http://www.netsales.com
Further panelists to be announced next week! PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Forrester Research, Inc. predicts that U.S. B2B eCommerce, an intercompany trade in which the final order is placed over the Internet, will hit $2.7 trillion in 2004. This growth will be accelerated by the rapid development of eMarketplaces, new models for conducting eCommerce, including auctions, aggregators, bid systems, and exchanges. Forrester further predicts that these eMarketplaces will capture 53 percent of all U.S. online business trade and ultimately between 45 to 74 percent of eCommerce in a supply chain. Until now, the growth of online trading has been through one-to-one business connections, allowing businesses to buy and sell and leverage the Net to build relationships with their business partners. As companies more actively participate in eMarketplaces, these virtual networks will allow companies to connect with a wider universe of buyers and sellers and adopt more dynamic trading practices. What impact does this have on existing business practices and supply chain relationships? The majority of firms expect to be drawn into eMarketplaces, yet, they are still not exactly sure how they will participate. As the corporate world pursues multiple paths on the way to a major B2B online presence and a new identity within the New Economy, will the path be through: Coalitions? Partnerships? Or spin-offs? Create? Merge? Or buy-out? REGISTRATION To register please send name, title, company, email address and
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Come join us for our weekly pub, every Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 100-120 mid- to high-level executives every week and, as always, is a great place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Representatives from small start-ups and major companies to venture capital and academic join in the exchange at the Center Pub. It's... "The best reason to take off work early on Thursdays." For directions, please visit
http://www.worldinternetcenter.com The dress is casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your good ideas! Companies with an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs, by email (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com). For inquiries or to unsubscribe to this newsletter, contact Sara K. Dean, the Center's Program Manager, by email (sdean@worldinternetcenter.com). *************************************** For inquiries or to unsubscribe to this newsletter, contact Sara K. Dean, the Center's Program Manager, by email (sdean@worldinternetcenter.com).
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