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Member Newsletter
August 2004
Welcome to a new edition of The Open Group Member Newsletter!
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In This Issue:
CEO Corner with Allen Brown
It is around this time of year that we start to focus on the
operating plan and budget for the next financial year. Since
so much of what we are able to accomplish for our members
is driven by the income derived from membership, thoughts
always turn to how things have gone this year and how we could
do better going forward.
The good news is that 2004 is turning out to be a good year
for membership growth at The Open Group but every so often
I still encounter those people who really don’t get
it. You know the argument. “It’s not the cost
of the membership: it is the resource that we would have to
invest to make it worthwhile.”
While I am thinking about how we can develop a more compelling
value proposition, I notice someone has left a copy of Fortune
Magazine on my desk, open at an article entitled, “What
went wrong at WaMu”.
The article is about Washington Mutual (WaMu). It seems that
from 1996 WaMu grew, by acquisition, into not only America’s
biggest mortgage bank but also its seventh-largest financial
institution, with assets of $280 billion. On June 28th of
this year, however, they issued a press release announcing
a huge downward adjustment in its earnings forecast. The mortgage
banking unit now looks as though the $1.3 billion of profits
in 2003 would be down to virtually zero in 2004. The press
release blamed the bad news on “expectations for a sustained
increase in long-term interest rates” but that was treated
with more than just a pinch of salt in the Fortune article.
The article focused on two underlying issues: the failure
to integrate the computer systems it had acquired; and the
failure to hedge interest-rate risk effectively. Sound familiar?
So what did go wrong?
Well, as we all know, multiple systems that are conceived
and implemented without any notion of the need to integrate
with other systems, at some time in the future, are going
to present a challenge. That’s why The Open Group members
produced the Interoperable Enterprise Business Scenario, in
which they introduced the requirement for an Integrated Information
Infrastructure, which led to the vision of Boundaryless Information
Flow™. That’s why architecture is such a hot issue
right now. That’s why the people who represent the organizations
that make up the membership of The Open Group are among the
leaders in solving the big issues.
But it seems that WaMu didn’t really focus on integration
at all. Instead they embarked on an ill-fated project to create
what they described as a highly advanced, proprietary platform
to handle most of its home loan operations. For anyone who
has implemented systems, there are words in that sentence
that would make most of us run for cover: “highly advanced”
and “proprietary”. Call me a risk-avoider if you
must, but I prefer words like, “proven”, “open”
and “standard”.
Apparently by late 2002, WaMu’s techies were so confident
they dismissed the consultants. It was then that the wheels
began to come off.
The CEO was quoted as saying, “This integration has
simply taken too long”, and that WaMu is working to
unify its systems and plans to be down to five platforms by
year-end. But something tells me that this issue is still
not as important as it should be at main board level. Effective
IT systems that can have such a major impact on the success
of the enterprise, have to be a matter of corporate governance,
not just something that is delegated to the “techies”,
as they are described in the article. And as we know, a critical
success factor for a project of this size is the sponsorship
and involvement of top management, yet I do not get a flavor
from this article that top management is any more involved
now than it appeared to be when the “techies”
dismissed the consultants. Nor do I get any flavor that they
have an effective enterprise architecture process.
In July, WaMu named a new head of mortgage banking and said
it was searching for a new mortgage-banking CFO. I really
hope they establish a senior role for a CIO and, not only
appoint someone capable of fulfilling that role, but also
give her the ability to hire a Chief Architect and structure
the process properly. And I hope that when the case is presented
to join The Open Group, that they do not consider that the
time needed to make the participation really pay off is so
costly that they are willing to risk further damage to their
business not only in terms of financial risk but also of reputation
risk. So far it seems that the stock market has let WaMu off
lightly.
But while joining The Open Group to learn from others is necessary,
it is by no means sufficient. The reality is that integration
is still hard and difficult. The Interoperable Enterprise,
the Agile Enterprise and Boundaryless Information Flow™,
are still only a vision, and the only way we will realize
that vision is for vendors and customers to come together
to understand, address and resolve the issues. Customers have
a significant role to play, not only in demonstrating the
priority requirements, but also in creating a market that
will prefer products that deliver against those requirements
for achieving global interoperability, in a secure, reliable
and timely manner.
With due respect to President Kennedy, it’s not just
about what The Open Group can do for you, it’s about
what you can do for The Open Group.
I do not doubt that there are executives who will continue
to doubt the benefits of membership. The good news though
is that more and more are seeing the light and numbers are
steadily growing.
I can comfort myself in the knowledge that our members are
pretty smart people who are unlikely ever to get into this
kind of a mess and I can feel fortunate that I am privileged
to work with them.
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Conference Wrap-Up: Boundaryless Information Flow™: Enterprise
Information Management
At The Open Group’s Summer 2004 conference, Boundaryless
Information Flow™: Enterprise Information Management,
industry and government executives discussed the challenges
of planning and implementing your own enterprise information
management strategy.
Mark Potts, CTO, Strategy and Technology, Software Global
Business Unit, HP, outlined how to manage IT as a service
delivery business in support of an adaptive enterprise and
discussed associated challenges. He also spoke about HP's
management architecture flexibility and re-use in enterprise
architectures, encompassing open standards.
Professor Alan McAdams from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate
School of Management noted the dependence of a knowledge-based
economy on availability of information and emphasized the
need for pre-eminent telecommunications infrastructure. He
detailed the serious inadequacies in the United States’
telecommunications infrastructure and how a lack of strategy
could leave the US at a global disadvantage. The key to breaking
this situation - in the USA and anywhere else, according to
McAdams - is end-user ownership of their local networks.
In discussing the future of defense information systems architectures
Douglas Barton, Lockheed Martin’s Director of Network
Centric Programs & Technology, examined the industry’s
response to the information needs of the modern war-fighter,
and emphasized the need for architecture-driven development
to ensure interoperability. "Tip" Slater, Deputy
Director, Strategic Architecture, at Boeing, and Stephen James,
EMC's Director of Strategic Programs introduced the vision
and mission of a new consortium created to focus on network
centric operations, which will formally commence its role
in September 2004.
Elliot Stone, Executive Director and CEO of the Massachusetts
Health Data Consortium, pointed out the importance of managing
information, interoperability and inter-enterprise connectivity
in the healthcare industry, and discussed how the industry
has coped with the implementation of new business information
infrastructures. Several other speakers from the health industry,
including Scott Ogawa, CTO, Children’s Hospital in Boston,
and Michael Brown MD, CIO of Harvard Health Services (HUHS),
detailed working examples of the efforts to establish enterprise
information strategies.
Looking at the issue of how security is critical to information
flow within the enterprise, Steve Whitlock, Boeing’s
IT Security Architect, and Nathaniel Borenstein, Distinguished
Engineer, IBM Lotus Division, President of Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility and author of the MIME standard,
focused on some of the critical security threats to information
retrieval and distribution. Emphasizing that there are no
silver bullets to spam control and multiple combined approaches
are needed, Borenstein called for cooperation to come up with
the best solutions.
For a complete rundown of the presentations please visit http://www.opengroup.org/boston2004/
. (Please note that Members of The Open Group also have
access to the presenters’ slides.)
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Groklaw and The Open Group speak about SCO's infringement on UNIX®
trademark
Groklaw
recently spoke to The Open Group’s Vice President of
Marketing, Graham Bird, about SCO’s plan to trademark
UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES. "'We'll be taking the issue
up with the Patent and Trademark Office and objecting strenuously,
and we'll be taking the issue up with SCO because it's a breach
of the license they already hold with us.” said Bird.
According to a SCO spokesman, “The company has filed
to receive that trademark because we believe there's some
value in that. How we plan to use that trademark in the future
has yet to be determined.”
The Open Group maintains that they own the trademark to UNIX,
so registering a trademark of UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES would
conflict with their rights and also violate their license
with SCO.
The full article can be viewed at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040730000203610
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The Open Group’s IT "Declaration of Independence"
Issued; Gains Broad Support
The Open Group, with the support of IBM, recently announced
an industry-wide effort to promote the use of open standards
to give information technology customers freedom of choice
and provide interoperability among all vendors.
The “Developer Declaration of Independence” calls
for the adoption and protection of open standards by corporations,
governments, organizations, and individuals to ensure a fair
competitive marketplace – thus allowing all parties
to compete equally from the basis of a shared technology foundation
and framework.
Since The Open Group published the Declaration at http://www.opengroup.org/declaration/
on 20 July, over 2,500 supporters from all over the world
have signed.
“ We have seen tremendous interest in the IT community
in supporting open standards against the threats posed by proprietary
solutions,” said Allen Brown, President and Chief Executive
Officer of The Open Group. ”We are very pleased to see
this level of response. Open standards are key for enabling
interoperability and access to integrated information within
and between enterprises, and we hope that everyone committed
to building an open, inclusive IT industry will endorse the
Declaration.”
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The Open Group, The Integration Consortium, and OMG Strengthen
Cross Industry Collaboration
The Open Group, The Integration Consortium (IC), and the Object
Management Group™ (OMG™) recently announced that
the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration
to start establishing The Open Group’s TOGAF Architecture
Development Method (TOGAF ADM) and OMG’s Model Driven
Architecture® (MDA®) as key components of the IC’s
recently launched Global Integration Framework (GIF).
The TOGAF ADM provides a framework with a guide for creating
a standardized enterprise architecture that companies refer
to during integration projects. OMG's Model Driven Architecture
supplies the GIF with the industry-standard Unified Modeling
Language® (UML®) and a set of profiles that help automate
the transformations on the path from business model to coded
application.
The organizations will work together to combine the capabilities
of TOGAF ADM, MDA, and the GIF into an architecture and process
that will simplify application interoperability and streamline
integration. The three organizations will hold a face-to-face
meeting during an upcoming OMG meeting in Washington, D.C.,
November 1-5, 2004.
For more information, please visit http://www.opengroup.org/press/22jul04.htm
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First system certified under the POSIX®: Certified by IEEE and
The Open Group Certification Program/span>
The Open Group, acting as The POSIX Certification Authority,
has certified Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY Operating System
to the 1003.1-2003 Systems Interfaces Product Standard. The
POSIX Certification program is a voluntary program jointly
administered by the IEEE and The Open Group, and is open to
any product meeting the conformance requirements.
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The Open Group Launches Email Encryption Certification
The Open Group and Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC)
recently announced the launch of a certification program to
guarantee the privacy of information carried by e-mail across
public networks, and awarded certificates to BT Syntegra and
Tumbleweed Communications Inc. as vendors of the first two
products to be certified within the program.
The S/MIME Gateway Certification program was developed by
The Open Group in direct response to a requirement from MHDC
whose members need to ensure the privacy of Private Health
Information to conform to the provisions of HIPAA regulations.
The specification establishes an interoperable profile of
the S/MIME Gateway specifications from IETF and adds a simple
protocol for the exchange and installation of public keys
between business partners. Certificates are awarded to vendors
in respect of products that are guaranteed to conform to the
S/MIMEGateway specification and which have been tested against
other certified products.
In addition to the two certificates given, the program received
statements of commitment to participate in the program from
the Zix Corporation (ZixCorp) and NetIQ Corporation.
For more information, please visit http://www.opengroup.org/press/19jul04.htm
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The Open Group Awards the 100th TOGAF Certification
Peter Sorensen of Canon Europe NV in the Netherlands became
the 100th individual to complete TOGAF 8 Certification training
and be TOGAF 8 Certified. Congratulations!
To see the register: http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl
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Certification News
TOGAF 8 CERTIFICATION NEWS
The Open Group is pleased to announce that the following have
recently been registered under the TOGAF 8 Certification Program:
TOGAF 8 CERTIFIED:
Fred Beaujot - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Awel Dico - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Lian Guan - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
William Hertha - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Gavin Illingworth - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Chandrashekar Iyer - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Chai Lam - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Sunny Lau - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Dejan Risimic - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Sam Rubino - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Sanjay Sharma - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Marc Smith - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Joseph Veghelyi - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Jane Wadley - Varnus - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Steve Yanush - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Simon Zhang - Bank of Montreal Financial Group
Daniel Abunu - BBC
Casey Crellin - BT SYNTEGRA
Stephen Duffy - HBOS plc
Andrew Harrod - BT SYNTEGRA
Michael Lambert - MGL Consulting Services
Carsten Rasmussen - Maersk Data AS
Eric Smith - QA IT Services Ltd.
Matthew Smith - Popkin Software & Systems, Inc
Sotero de Freitas - SINFIC
Pascal van Asselt - Shell Information Technology International
Mike Aikins - Centre For Securities Industry Strategy Pty
Ltd.
Roger Fare - Norwich Union Central Services
Sonjoy Premi - Future Computing Ltd.
Keith Allman - Independent Consultant
Symon Cusack - Popkin Software & Systems Ltd.
Andy Monaghan - Norwich Union Central Services
Rob Wagstaff - Norwich Union Central Services
Peter Sorensen - Canon Europe NV
John Mew - Norwich Union Central Services
For further information please refer to the register at:
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/register.html
SIF COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
NEWS
The Open Group is pleased to announce that the following product
has been registered as conforming to the SIF-enabled Application
Product Standard 1.1:
-- Wen-GAGE Student Information System 3.x with Wen-GAGE Agent
1.1-1 from Municipal Accounting Systems, Inc.
To view all current SIF certifications and Conformance Statements,
please see the SIF Certification Register at: http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert/register.html
For more information on the SIF compliance program, please
refer to:
http://www.opengroup.org/sif/cert
S/MIME GATEWAY CERTIFICATION
NEWS
The Open Group is pleased to announce two registrations within
the S/MIME Gateway Certification Program:
-- MMP (Message Management Platform) 1.01 from BT Syntegra
-- Tumbleweed Email Firewall 6.0 from Tumbleweed Communications
Corp.
are registered as conforming to the S/MIME Gateway product
standard.
To see the Conformance Statements please refer to the certification
register at http://www.opengroup.org/smg/cert/register.html
and click on the CSQ icon for the product.
For more information on the the S/MIME Gateway certification
program, please refer to http://www.opengroup.org/smg/cert/
POSIX®: CERTIFIED BY
IEEE AND THE OPEN GROUP CERTIFICATION NEWS
The Open Group is pleased to announce the first registration
within the POSIX(R):Certified by IEEE and The Open Group Certification
Program.
-- INTEGRITY 5.0 PPC from Green Hills Software, Inc.
is registered as conforming to the 1003.1-2003 System Interfaces
Product Standard.
Level of certification: Platform Specific
To see the Conformance Statement please refer to the certification
register at http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/register.html
and click on the CSQ icon for the product.
The POSIX Certification program is a voluntary program jointly
administered by the IEEE and The Open Group, open to any product
meeting the conformance requirements.
For more information on the program please refer to
http://posixcertified.ieee.org/pcfaqs.html
http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org/docs/posixfaq.html
LSB CERTIFICATION NEWS
The Open Group is pleased to announce that SUSE Linux AG has
registered:
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
as conforming to the LSB Internationalized Runtime Environment
Version 1.3 product standard.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWER
as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment for PPC32 Version
1.3 product standard.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM S/390
as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment for S390 Version
1.3 product standard.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM zSeries
as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment for S390X Version
1.3 product standard.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Family
as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment for IA64 Version
1.3 product standard.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86
as conforming to the LSB Runtime Environment for IA32 Version
1.3 product standard.
To see the Conformance Statement please refer to:
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/register.html
and click on the CSQ icon for the product.
For more information on the Free Standards Group Certification
program, please refer to http://www.freestandards.org/certification/
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Conference Preview: -- Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Securing the Extended Enterprise
-- 3rd Architecture Practitioners Conference
The Open Group’s autumn conference, Boundaryless Information
Flow™: Securing the Extended Enterprise, is taking place
on October 18-22, 2004 at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans,
LA, USA.
Information flow has vast benefits for the modern enterprise,
yet is overshadowed by the threat of those who abuse this
technology to bring down personal, corporate or even national
systems and networks, in turn leading to significant financial
loss and threatening national security and critical infrastructure.
Topics to be covered at the conference include:
- Cyber-terrorism – the growing threat to critical
infrastructure systems and companies
- Enterprise network security – growing your security
in line with your business and demands for increased information
dissemination / establishing security policies
- Security architecture – generating and maintaining
an enterprise security architecture
- Security awareness – information security is the
responsibility of staff at all levels
- Secure system management – protecting information
assets / verifying software integrity / establishing security
procedures throughout systems lifecycles
- Authentication and authorization – identity management
/ authorization / remote user and third-party access control
- Risk evaluation – critical assets, their threats
and vulnerabilities / measuring and managing the risk /
business continuity planning
- The future threat and countermeasures – a look
ahead
Running concurrently during the week in New Orleans is the
3rd Architecture Practitioners' Conference, from Tuesday October19
to Thursday 21, 2004. The theme is “Enterprise Architecture:
Making IT Pay: Using EA to Create Business Value, Control
Costs, and Generate Real ROI.”
This two-day conference will address the key issues and challenges
that enterprise architects and executives overseeing enterprise
architecture face today. The conference will focus on how
enterprise architecture can best contribute to creating real
business value, provide experience-based insight into the
approaches and methods that have proved most effective for
developing enterprise architectures around the world, and
clarify the limitations that exist in this emerging field.
For more information on both of these events, please visit:
http://www.opengroup.org/new-orleans2004
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DMTF’s Enterprise Management World Conference
In 2004 and going forward, the DMTF Developers Conference
will be part of the new industry conference called Enterprise
Management World (EMW), to be held on September 12-15, 2004
in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
EMW focuses on the rapid growth in user implementation of
distributed management technologies for the data center and
the communications infrastructure. Throughout this three-day
conference, attendees from major corporations will learn about
the latest user successes and challenges as well as products,
tools, services and training in the IT and communications
industries. The conference will feature a set of developer
tracks and a set of end-user tracks. It will also include
vendor exhibits and DMTF and Alliance Partner technology demonstrations.
Please visit http://www.emwusa.com
for more details.
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TOGAF Open Training Sessions
Need to get TOGAF certified? Check out TOGAF Training sessions
offered by The Open Group members: TOGAF 8 Awareness or TOGAF
8 for Practitioners, which leads to TOGAF 8 Certification
by The Open Group. For more information, check out: http://www.opengroup.org/events/#TOGAF
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Press Roundup
The Open Group in the news:
August 3, 2004 - ECN: Green Hills Software Introduces Version
5.0 of its velOSity Microkernel and INTEGRITY RTOS
August 2, 2004 - Yahoo News: Repository to Ease Application
Integration for Supply Chain
August 2, 2004 - FinanceCanada: Green Hills Software Introduces
Version 5.0 of its velOSity Microkernel and INTEGRITY RTOS
August 2, 2004 - Yahoo Finance: Green Hills Software Introduces
Version 5.0 of its velOSity Microkernel and INTEGRITY RTOS
August 2, 2004 - TMCnet: Green Hills Softwares INTEGRITY Operating
System First to Be Certified Under the IEEE and The Open Group
POSIX Certification Program
August 2, 2004 - Yahoo Finance: Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY
Operating System First to Be Certified under The IEEE and
The Open Group POSIX Certification Program
August 1, 2004 - eClips: JAVA - Best of the Web (Top Sites)
August 1, 2004 - eClips: POSIX - Best of the Web (Top Sites)
August 2004 - ePro: Developers Declare Independence!
July 30, 2004 - XML.org: Industry Groups to Work Together
on Enterprise Integration Standards
July 30, 2004 - NewsForge: Can GNU ever be Unix?
July 30, 2004 - LinuxWorld (Australia): SCO tries to revive
Unix System Labs name
July 30, 2004 - LWN.net: SCO tries to revive Unix System Labs
name
July 30, 2004 - Groklaw: SCO Confirms Trademark Filing - The
Open Group Will Oppose It
July 30, 2004 - Computerworld: SCO tries to revive Unix System
Labs name
July 30, 2004 - Open IT World: SCO tries to revive Unix System
Labs name
July 29, 2004 - ITBusiness.ca: If you declare, will anyone
care?
July 29, 2004 - eWeek: Industry Groups to Work Together on
Enterprise Integration Standards
July 28, 2004 - InformIT: Open Source "Declaration of
Independence" -- would you sign up?
July 28, 2004 - IT Toolbox: Developers Enthusiastically Embrace
the IT "Declaration of Independence" Sponsored by
The Open Group
July 28, 2004 - Symantec: Microsoft to Enforce Sender ID Checks
July 28, 2004 - ADTmag: Open standards are no panacea
July 27, 2004 - IBM developerWorks: Implement and access stateful
Web services using WebSphere Studio, Part 4 - Model dynamic
WS-Resources
July 26, 2004 - ebizQ: Integration Consortium, Open Group
And OMG Team On Integration Framework
July 26, 2004 - Computer Weekly: Integration imperatives
July 26, 2004 - IT Toolbox: The Integration Consortium, The
Open Group and OMG Move Forward to Strengthen Cross Industry
Collaboration
July 26, 2004 - NetworkWorldFusion: Talking spam, hold the
baloney
July 24, 2004 - CMC Mag: Developers Declare Independence through
Open Standards
July 23, 2004 - Linux Devices: Online petition rallies developers
around open standards
July 23, 2004 - Slashdot: IT, be free!
July 22, 2004 - MicroScope: Open Group urges developer independence
July 22, 2004 - Computer Weekly: Open Group urges developer
independence
July 22, 2004 - eBCVG: Open Group urges developer independence
July 22, 2004 - IT Toolbox: The Single UNIX Specification,
Version 3
July 21, 2004 - LinuxWorld: Open Group urges developer independence
July 21, 2004 - ARNnet: Open Group urges developer independence
July 21, 2004 - ITWeb: Developers called to the open cause
July 21, 2004 - TechWorld: Open Group urges developer independence
July 21, 2004 - IT Toolbox: IT "Declaration of Independence"
Sponsored by The Open Group
July 21, 2004 - ebizQ: Open Group Sponsors 'Developer Declaration
of Independence'
July 21, 2004 - Macworld: Call to end closed IT standards
July 20, 2004 - Open IT World: Open Group urges developer
independence
July 20, 2004 - Computerworld: Open Group urges developers
to declare independence: The consortium issued a virtual call
to arms against closed standards
July 20, 2004 - Computerworld (Australia): Open Group urges
developer independence
July 20, 2004 - InfoWorld: Open Group urges developers to
declare independence
July 20, 2004 - IDG News Service: Open Group urges developer
independence
July 20, 2004 - Market Wire: Habeas CEO Des Cahill to Participate
in Open Group Messaging Forum at Boston's Open Group Conference:
July 22 Presentation Highlights Critical Role of Sender Reputation
in Ensuring Delivery of Email
Press Releases:
August , 2004 - Interoperability
at the Forefront of Executives’ Minds:
http://www.opengroup.org/press/09aug04.htm
July 27, 2004 - Developers Enthusiastically
Embrace the IT "Declaration of Independence" Sponsored
by The Open Group:
http://www.opengroup.org/press/27jul04.htm
July 22, 2004 - The Integration
Consortium, The Open Group and OMG Move Forward to Strengthen
Cross Industry Collaboration:
http://www.opengroup.org/press/22jul04.htm
July 20, 2004 - IT "Declaration
of Independence" Sponsored by The Open Group:
http://www.opengroup.org/press/20jul04.htm
July 19, 2004 - The Open Group
Launches Certification to Support Encryption of e-mail at the
Organization Gateway:
http://www.opengroup.org/press/19jul04.htm
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Top Downloads from the Web
Top 10 downloaded publications in July 2004
Base Definitions, Issue 6
TOGAF, Version 8 'Enterprise Edition'
The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3
Distributed TP: The XA Specification
Security Design Patterns
The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3 (Superseded version)
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication
DCE 1.1: Remote Procedure Call
Identity Management
Common Security: CDSA and CSSM, Version 2 (with corrigenda)
Top 10 page views in July 2004
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Industry Events Calendar
Events of The Open Group
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Securing the Extended Enterprise
October 18-22, 2004
New Orleans, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/new-orleans2004/
3rd Architecture Practitioners Conference
October 19-21, 2004
New Orleans, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/0410norl/q404arch-prac.htm
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Architecting Identity Management
January 24-28, 2005
San Francisco, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/events/q105/
Boundaryless Information Flow™: Secure Architecture,
Web, and Mobility
April 25-29, 2005
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Boundaryless Information Flow™:
Managing the Enterprise
July 18-22, 2005
New York, USA
http://www.opengroup.org/events
Other Industry Events
DMTF's Enterprise Management World
Conference
September 12-15, 2004,
Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.emwusa.com
4th Annual FinSec Conference
Information Security for Financial Institutions
September 15-16, 2004
Millennium Hotel London, UK
http://www.mistieurope.com/MIS/Special_Events_FINSEC04.asp
MDA-TOGAF ADM Workshop
Co-located with OMG Technical Meeting)
November 4, 2004
Washington, DC
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Final Thoughts…
Please let us know if there are other subjects you would like
to see covered in this newsletter, if you have any comments
on any story or article in the newsletter, or to send letters
to the editor for possible publication in the future. You
can contact us at memnews-feedback@opengroup.org.
We look forward to hearing from you, and will see you next
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