In this second of two parts of the ZapForum Podcast series recorded live at the Open Group event in San Diego, CA on January 29, 2007, ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer interviews attendees and exhibitors at the event to learn more about their SOA plans, their thoughts on Enterprise Architecture and the role of the Open Group.

Interviewees for this podcast include:

• Sally White, Vice President, Business Development, Tenfold Corporation – Discussing the need for higher level tooling for non-developers, the role of composition and metadata, and declarative, model-driven approaches to Service-Oriented Business Application development.
  
  

• Dimitri Sirota – VP Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. Dimitri explores the area of network-aware applications and application-aware networking, its relevance to SOA, Web Services, and XML in general, how Service-oriented architects need to concern themselves with the network, why enterprise architects need to broaden their skills and the role of the Open Group in fostering this broadening.
  
  
  

• Miko Matsumura – Vice President, SOA Product Marketing, webMethods – Miko explains the lack of skilled enterprise architects, critical human factors impacting SOA advancement, the SOAMasterClass.com site that provides needed education, credentialing and certification opportunities for EAs, and the role of the Open Group.

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