• "SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond the traditional enterprise architect role" - the conclusion of a panel discussion at The Open Group's Chicago conference (podcast & transcript on ZDNet)
• The state of enterprise architecture in The Open Group is assessed by President and CEO, Allen Brown (podcast & transcript)
• Member Spotlight: Chris Armstrong - President of Armstrong Process Group, Inc., who has been involved with The Open Group since 2005 - is the latest member to come under our spotlight.
• The Open Group Security Forum initiates the development of risk management and analysis taxonomy, the first phase of a comprehensive initiative aimed at eliminating widespread industry confusion.

          archived headlines

• August 15, 2008 - SD Times
  Guest View: The Rise of IT Specialists
• August 6, 2008 - ZDNet: Service Oriented
  Skilled in SOA, business, and tech: Where do we get such individuals?
• August 4, 2008 - ZDNet: BriefingsDirect (podcast and transcript)
  SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond traditional enterprise architect role, says Open Group panel
  (syndicated in BriefingsDirect, BriefingsDirect Transcripts, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect Blog, FindTech Blogs)
  
• August 4, 2008 - InfoWorld
  Taking advantage of multicore PCs
• August, 2008 - CIO
  SOA Standards Organizations

• Celestial Consulting Ltd register 17 as TOGAF 8 Certified
• Real IRM Solutions (pty) Ltd register 7 as TOGAF 8 Certified
• Architecting-the-Enterprise register 33 as TOGAF 8 Certified
• SNA Technologies registers register 5 as TOGAF 8 Certified
• SIF Certification for Horizon Software International, LLC

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