The Social Experience

Yesterday I received a note sent by the blogging team let us know about the coool new Google gadgets from devWorks team.
Yon can download the gadget from this devWorks article, by Melinda, devWorks editor, IBM. A must for people surfing devWorks!

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Couple of devWorks articles, along with the IBM SOA Foundation whitepaper, which I guess would be good starting points on SOA education.

Are you an SOA expert

Developing skills for the SOA world

IBM SOA Foundation

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Continuing further on my earlier posting on Software Assets, I was mentioning if there exists any standard in software assets space. Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) provides a standard way to describe and package assets. So when was RAS defined? Some RAS timelines.

• RAS was initially developed by the RAS consortium 2001-2003


• RAS was adopted at the St. Louis OMG meetings, April 2004


• The RAS FTF submitted its Final report to the OMG in March 2005


• RAS FTF Final report accepted and final voting completed by OMG in June 2005

So, next thing to ponder on is the need for RAS. RAS is needed for a common representation of assets to enable the transfer, sharing, and management of software assets. RAS provides the organization and structure of information and artifacts for an asset. Lets see in a later posting, on asset management/governance provided in the form of asset repositories, which is critical in SOA implementations.

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This presentation on blogging styles was sent to us (bloggers) by our devWorks blogging team. As its very interesting, I thought of posting it here :-).

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IBM has launched its first ever external Thinkplace site on the Alphaworks platform. Click here to read the press announcement. The top ideas will then help shape the agenda for the GIO sessions that begin on June 6 in Nairobi and conclude in September in Cape Town, with stops in Dakar, Paris, Lisbon, Atlanta and Beijing in between. More than 150 global thought leaders are expected to convene across these seven “deep dive” sessions.

Getting Involved

With this launch, every one can get involved in this important global discussion. Log into ThinkPlace on IBM’s alphaWorks Services site to contribute ideas and to join the conversation. The first-ever public challenge will run for three weeks through May 25. I'm there already, how about you?

This is exactly what we mean by Innovation that matters, for our company and to the world, one of three IBM values at work.

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I guess, underlying all of SOA benefits is the concept of reusability. Services are assets that grow in value as they are reused. I'll try to post some material on asset, its management and on some of the products/solutions from IBM for the same.

A Software Asset is a collection of Artifacts which provides a solution to a requirement or business/mission need, for one or more contexts, with instructions for usage and variability points, as shown in the beside diagram What are Artifacts? Workproducts from the software process Requirements, Designs & Models (including enterprise and systems architecture), Source code, Data, Tests, User Interfaces, Documentation, Service Interfaces, Estimates and so on. Kinds of assets Applications, components, patterns,software that runs systems or products, services, frameworks, templates. As assets are comprised of a number of software development artifacts, those artifacts may exist in many forms and reflect a variety of styles. Such diversity increases the costs of discovering, comprehending, and reusing. I'll talk about a standard in my next posting, that provides a standardized way to organize, structure, describe, and package these artifacts. Such an approach mitigates reuse costs by providing consistency and predictability across assets, which in turn reduces the costs of asset production and asset consumption.

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Going ahead in the G2.0 release cycle, Geronimo community released the M5 driver. You can download it from here.
Some of the features, I was looking forward are:

Global JNDI

Tomcat statistics

Multiple servers sharing the same repo and config store

Adding a second repository to Geronimo

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Here comes another presentation from marketing team, for IMPACT 2007. IBM WebSphere Technical Exchange (WTE) and IBM Transaction and Messaging (T&M) conference have been combined to become IBM IMPACT 2007, coming May 20-25 to Orlando.



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Further to my posting on IMPACT event, check out this cool IMPACT game! You'll get the URL of the game as you slide through the slideshow.

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Please join Sandy Carter, IBM Vice President of SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels for an insider’s perspective into achieving greater business flexibility for competitive advantage. She will be joined by Gary D. Cripps, Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President, Finance and Information Technology, Delaware Electric Cooperative, Inc., who will give a compelling first-hand account of experiences solving business challenges by using SOA for greater business flexibility. Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM GMT Duration: 60 minutes

Click here to register and get more information.

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IBM in India bagged another deal, this time in the real estate space. DLF, with a pyramid symbol and a caption of 'BUILDING INDIA', is the largest real estate company in India. IBM and DLF entered into a 10 year contract, valuing around US$29m. The deal is to transform and manage DLF's IT Infrastructure. As part of the partnership IBM and DLF will also set up a Technology Innovation Council (TIC) with joint participation, to deploy innovative solutions to support world class real estate services. Click here to read more from IBM Press room.

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IBM Support Assistant (ISA) V3.0.2 is now available. Getting new product plug-ins (customizable features) and tools is now faster than ever. With this update and the 140+ product plug-ins, customers will be more productive in their efforts to find answers and resolve problems quickly and easily.

How to get the latest version
There are two easy ways to get this latest update to ISA:

• If you already have ISA installed, start the application and click on the Updater tab, then click on Upgrades. You will see "IBM Support Assistant" V3.0.2 available. Simply click on the available features and click on Install.


• If you do not currently have IBM Support Assistant installed, download the latest version from our website, http://www.ibm.com/software/support/isa

The ISA team would love to hear from you about your ISA experience, so feel free to click on the Feedback link within ISA.



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IBM IMPACT 2007 - the first annual Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and WebSphere global conference. And it will all take place from May 20-25 in Orlando, Florida. IBM IMPACT 2007, is the not-to-be-missed event that will deliver a year’s worth of SOA education in one short week. The video to the right is an invitation to the event from Sandy Carter, IBM's VP for, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing

Impact 2007 will address a broad set of needs and interests by offering you three tracks to choose from:

• Technical - For the IT technical practitioner that designs, builds, and implements solutions, this role-based track offers over 325 unique sessions and hands-on labs.
• IT Executive - For CTO's, VP's of IT, and Chief Architects, this track will show you how to gain competitive advantage with actionable education and cutting edge insight into the latest technologies.
• Business Leader - A two day track (May 21-22) designed for CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and non-IT VP's and Directors, will feature industry/sector specific sessions.

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Another landmark deal was closed yesterday by IBM in India with !dea Cellular, a leading GSM mobile service provider in India. The deal would size around US$ 600 million to US$ 800 million over the 10-year period, with some conditions attached to it.

Read from the official press announcement:

Idea Cellular and IBM Ink a 10 Year Business Transformation Pact

An excerpt from a note sent by IBM's Regional GM India/South Asia:

...The strategic win is a strong testimony of our leadership in the Indian market and the trust clients place in IBM...It further widens the gap between IBM and competition in the Indian communications sector by a huge margin. The proven delivery capability of IBM in the Indian telecom market set IBM miles ahead of competition.

This is a second major deal with a telcom major in India, by IBM, the first one being with Bharti Tele-Ventures, inked in 2004. I like the background music of one of !DEA cellular's ad, in which the connection between to people talking/thinking about each other is shown as zeros and ones(bits and bytes). Some of their TV ads are posted at their site here.

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