David Linthicum Gives Keynote Speech at SOA Kongress 2006 in Germany

Reston Va., November 20, 2006, David Linthicum, an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture (SOA) will be speaking this week at the SOA Kongress 2006 held in Mainz Germany http://www.soa-kongress.de/.

Linthicum’s talk, “Web 2.0 to the Global SOA…Mapping the Journey,” will outline Linthicum’s vision for the emerging Web.

“We are moving toward a day when most of our enterprise applications may be delivered as services, and thus provide a more economical way to approach information technology management with businesses going forward.” says Linthicum. “This is also the great equalizer since businesses, large and small, will have access to the same number and quality of services, much like they do with Web sites today. Shared services will create many opportunities, including better agility and the ability to operate a business with fewer IT resources. In essence, we're moving to ‘Web 2.0’—where service delivery over the Internet will be added to information deliver as the key strategic value of the Web to businesses, as well as extending the Web as a true platform.”

You can find additional information in Linthicum’s recent white paper found here: http://www.linthicumgroup.com/Web_2_the_Universal_SOA.pdf

David is also the host of InfoWorld's SOA Report Podcast, and writes the InfoWorld's Real World SOA Blog, and has columns in both Web Services Journal and Business Integration Journal.

David Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture (SOA) expert. In his career David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), approaches and technology in wide use today.

David began the Linthicum Group (www.linthicumgroup.com) to provide world class SOA consulting to major corporations and government agencies, as well as select SOA product companies. David is the former CEO of BRIDGEWERX, and has held key technology management rules with a number of organizations including CTO of Mercator Software, CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. David keynotes at many leading technology conferences.

In addition, David has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. David has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development, and the ground breaking and best selling Enterprise Application Integration released in 1999. His latest book, Next Generation Application Integration, was just released and is already a best seller.