As reported by Didier here. We had the chance last thursday evening to meet Mr Gordon Simpson, deputy CTO of BEA Systems.

We discussed very intensively different themes, as:

  • the mid-term vision and positioning of [IBM Web Sphere](http://weblogs.asp.net/lkempe/admin/www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp), [BEA Web Logic](http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/platform/) and the [Microsoft .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/) solutions
  • the current standardization processes ([J2EE](http://java.sun.com/j2ee/), Java, etc.) in comparison with other ones, not so successful (CORBA specs)
  • the future of SUN (HW, Java)
  • the strategy of BEA concerning Linux
  • [UDDI](http://www.uddi.org/): hype or market standard?
  • offline solution and caching
  • [SOA](http://www.service-architecture.com/web-services/articles/service-oriented_architecture_soa_definition.html) on IBM mainframes
    • An awesome workshop and a great person, Thanks for your time Gordon.