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The End of Rip and Replace |
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 Eric Newcomer- CTO, IONA
Date: May 24 - 2:00 PM
Track - Agile Business
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Session Abstract: When looking at services and SOA, it is often said that there is a need to achieve a better return on existing IT investments. In order for SOA to be successfully deployed, existing applications and systems need to be able to participate as equal citizens.
Years ago it was expected that programs being written would eventually be replaced. Things were changing so rapidly then - database management systems, transaction processing monitors, word processing systems were all coming out and it seemed like the code that was being written one day would be in a product the next.
With the advent of Web services, it seems that the software industry has finally reached a level of maturity at which existing investments are no longer questioned but rather accepted and embraced. Companies don't expect IT environments to be replaced, they expect them to work better together.
Speaker Bio: In his role as chief technology officer at IONA, Eric Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap and strategy.
Eric joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.
Eric leads IONA's participation in industry standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services from the beginning. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He serves as co-author and co-chair of the WS-TX Technical Committee. He is also a former editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. |
