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, BEA Web Logic and the Microsoft .NET solutions
- the current standardization processes (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: hype or market standard?
- offline solution and caching
- SOA on IBM mainframes
An awesome workshop and a great person, Thanks for your time Gordon.