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***SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERTS PANEL: MONDAY, OCTOBER 30,
2000 "LEGACY SYSTEMS IN THE NEW ECONOMY: CHALLENGES & INTEGRATION"
***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
"WEB SERVICES FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT"
By Ms. Sandy Rankin, Director of Emerging Technology Software, Software
Group, IBM Corporation
5:00-7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000 "EVOKE COMMUNICATIONS:
DELIVERY OF VIRTUAL MEETINGS"
By Brad Dupree, Vice President of Business Development, Evoke Communications
5:00 -7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER 12 - 15, 2000
"XML DEVCON 2000"
Registration Necessary. Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA.
Further information below.
***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2000
"ACCELERATING YOUR STARTUP COMPANY WITH IBM"
By Cynthia Erdman, Director of Strategy, Business Development &
Global Operations, IBM Corporation
5:00 -7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
***CHALLENGE- THE- EXPERT PANEL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2000
"THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET"
By Mr. John R. Patrick, Vice President, Internet Technology, IBM
Corporation
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Registration Recommended. Open to the public.
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***SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERTS PANEL: MONDAY, OCTOBER 30,
2000
"LEGACY SYSTEMS IN THE NEW ECONOMY: CHALLENGES & INTEGRATION"
October 30th the Center launched the first in an on-going series
of "Challenge the Experts." IBM's Mark Cathcart and Ray Paquette
from Coopetition, Inc. and Ensemble Systems went toe-to-toe in an
animated dialog over the issues and characteristics of, and the
solutions for, legacy sytems in the new economy. Colin Wiel, co-founder
and chairman of Milo, moderated this lively discussion.
"Too young to die and too old to code JAVA," was the opening slide
from Mr. Cathcart, Technology Strategist, Corporate Technology Marketing,
IBM Corporation. According Mr. Cathcart, the legacy problem is a
people problem. "It's not about the program language," said Mr.
Cathcart, "It's about the intellectual capital. It's not enough
to know a technology. One must know how to apply a technology to
a business solution."
What are Mr. Cathcart's solutions? Invest in people. Encourage,
educate, and integrate. Understand your business imperatives and
know the scale of the applications you must operate.
Ray Paquette, Chief Technology Officer of Ensemble Systems began
the evening with an overview of the problems of legacy systems,
legacy characteristics, how it happened, what solutions are available
from the Y2K work that was done, and how to value your legacy system.
According to Mr. Paquette, there are 10,000 mainframes worldwide
housing some 200 billion lines of COBOL code. It costs $6 to $23
per line of COBOL to manually rewrite a system, and 85% of existing
applications will, indeed, migrate to client/server architecture.
How did we get here? Mr. Paquette gives most of the credit to
entropy -- that law of physics which states that all things in the
universe, left to their own devices, will seek a state of disorder.
"Increased entropy is bad," said Mr. Paquette, "but it's inevitable."
"Remember Y2K?" asked Mr. Paquette. "It strengthened the life of
many legacy systems. Lots of code was cleaned up, lots was learned
about existing systems, and management became educated about IT
issues."
For his solutions, Mr. Paquette offered this, "Get management
commitment -- it's absolutely necessary for a good transition --
take an inventory of your resources and availability of domain experts,
and understand the skill sets available on the transition team.
The Center thanks the panelists as well as the audience participants
for the thought provoking discussion during the evening.
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***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
"'WEB SERVICES' FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT"
By Ms. Sandy Rankin, Director of Emerging Technology Software, Software
Group, Solutions & Integration Unit, IBM Corporation
5:00-7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
The Pub Talk tonight will focus on how Web Services constitute
an emerging set of technologies for eBusiness solutions, based on
the Internet and open standards. Ms. Rankin's Pub Talk on Web Services
is from a business manager's perspective in understanding the associated
business value and new opportunities that can come from addressing
critical issues of systems integration in eBusiness solution deployments.
ABOUT SANDY RANKIN
Sandy Rankin, Director of Emerging Technology Software, IBM Software
Group Solutions & Integration Unit, has business and development
management responsibility for Emerging Technology Software strategic
to eBusiness environments. This software includes the latest-breaking
Java technologies and XML technologies. Ms. Rankin's responsibilities
cover strategy, strategic partner relationships and development
efforts at both group and product division levels. She began her
career with IBM in 1974 and has held various positions over the
years in organizations responsible for software development for
platforms ranging from mainframe computers to personal computers.
Ms. Rankin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University
of Illinois and a M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University,
St. Louis.
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.
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***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000
"EVOKE COMMUNICATIONS: DELIVERY OF VIRTUAL MEETINGS"
By Brad Dupree, Vice President of Business Development, Evoke Communications
5:00 -7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
Brad Dupree will speak about Evoke Communication's suite of integrated
communications services and how the services enable businesses to
perform virtual meetings with ease and speed. Mr. Dupree will also
discuss the technology and how companies and individuals can utilize
the variety of services to save time and money.
ABOUT BRAD DUPREE
Brad Dupee has an extensive background in telecommunications, Internet
channel development, and electronic relationship marketing. His
specific areas of expertise include electronic consumer care and
online customer relationship development. Prior to Evoke Communications,
Mr. Dupree managed business development at Hill/Holliday Interactive,
an Internet business consulting firm, for clients including PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Lotus Development Corporation and Inc. Com. As Director of Sales
and Marketing for General Interactive, Inc., He built a successful
indirect sales effort accounting nearly 70% of Internet-related
revenues. Mr. Dupree holds a B.A. in Finance from Bentley College
in Waltham, MA.
ABOUT EVOKE COMUNICATIONS
Evoke Communications is the leading communications service provider,
offering integrated tools that enable virtual meetings. The company's
core services include its flagship service, Evoke Webconferencing
which enables reservation-less online conferencing; Evoke Mobile
Webconferencing which combines Webconferencing with wireless accessibility;
Evoke Collaboration, which allows users to interact in real-time
over the Internet; and Evoke Webcasting which provides audio and
video streaming. With these services, customers and partners are
enabled with easy-to-use yet powerful communication tools for sharing
audio, video, and data online. Evoke Communications' proprietary
architecture integrates leading-edge technologies into a single
convergent communications platform that has been selected by leading
businesses, portals, and websites to increase productivity and strengthen
business relationships.
For more information:
http://www.evoke.com
Tel: 800.878.7326.
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***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER 12 - 15, 2000
"XML DEVCON 2000"
Registration Necessary.
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA.
Further information below.
The XML DevCon 2000 is a technical program that includes the expertise
of: the co-inventors of SQL, SGML, and XML, an ACM Fellow, a Turing
Award winner, a Seybold Fellow, an STC Honorary Fellow, and a W3C
Fellow; 29 authors of books about XML, XHTML, Java, and databases;
and members of a variety of W3C XML Working Groups.
INFORMATION
XML DevCon Doubletree Hotel November 12-15, 2000 San Jose, CA http://www.xmldevcon2000.com
EXPECTED ATTENDEES
Programmers, application developers & engineers
Software architects & systems analysts
Database managers & administrators
Internet application developers
Corporate webmasters
Web development managers
SAMPLE OF SPEAKER SESSIONS
Monday, November 13
8:40 - 9:25 a.m.
"XML & Web Services: Bringing Order to B2B on the Web"
By Bob Sutor, IBM Director, e-business Standards Strategy
Tuesday, November 14
10:40 -11:40 a.m.
"The Future of Software Development: What and How"
By Tim Bray, Paul Brown, Peter Coffee, Kevin Dick, Jim Gray, Norbert
Mikula
Moderated by Ken North
Tuesday, November 14
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
"We're not Finished Building the Web"
By Tim Bray, CEO, Antarctica Systems
Wednesday, November 15
8:35 - 9:20 a.m.
"Pouring Cold Water on Burning Questions"
By Charles Goldfarb
EXPOSITION HOURS
Monday, November 13: Noon to 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 14: Noon to 6:00 p.m.
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***PUB TALK: NOVEMBER 16, 2000
"ACCELERATING YOUR STARTUP COMPANY WITH IBM"
By Cynthia Erdman, Director of Strategy, Business Development &
Global Operations, IBM Corporation
5:00 -7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m. Open to the public.
Cynthia Erdman will discuss how startups can use IBM as a resource
for building a firm and accelerating its time-to-market stage. IBM
provides one-stop shopping for ideas, capital, information, marketplace
and technology resources. At the Pub, learn how to obtain the technology,
hardware and software necessary to turn an idea or application into
a product and win in the marketplace.
ABOUT CYNTHIA ERDMAN
Cynthia Erdman is currently Director of Strategy, Business Development
and Global Operations for IBM's unit responsible for Developer Relations.
This community includes over 10 million individual developers worldwide
and more than 50,000 developer firms who are IBM Partners. Ms. Erdman's
role includes developing mind share and market share growth strategies
with the developer community and building implementation plans to
bring these strategies to life; recent examples -- IBM.com/developerWorks
and strategic alliances with key market making developers such as
Siebel, Ariba, I2 and Geac. Ms. Erdman is also responsible for the
unit's global field and central operations. Ms. Erdman's prior experience
includes extensive software product development management, global
sales and marketing management with a six year posting in Asia,
and positions building and managing business partner programs for
IBM. On return from Asia in 1998, Ms. Erdman was posted as a Strategist
for IBM and was named to her current position in March 1999.
Ms. Erdman holds an MBA in International Management from Macquarrie
University in Australia and a B.A. in Business from California State
University at San Luis Obispo.
ABOUT IBM DEVELOPER RELATIONS
Software developer IBM Business Partners receive support through
PartnerWorld for Developers (http://www.developer.ibm.com)
- a worldwide program designed to help them reach broader markets,
lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to
market faster. It focuses on leading-edge technologies that enable
developers to deliver complete e-business solutions to their customers.
IBM developerWorks (http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks)
is a gateway to free tools, tips, tutorials and other resources
on open industry standards from inside and outside of IBM. Individual
developers will find the latest technology news and industry trends
at developerWorks, an industry-leading developer portal for resources
on Java, XML, Linux and much more.
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***CHALLENGE- THE- EXPERT PANEL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2000
"NEXTGEN INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES"
By Mr. John R. Patrick, Vice President, Internet Technology, IBM
Corporation
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Open to the public. Registration Recommended
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
Program Manager
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Em: sdean@worldinternetcenter.com
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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
and click on "directions" in the navigation bar.
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).
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