Seminar on Interoperability in the industry – 15 May 08

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SiTF joined forces with Microsoft on 15 May 08 (Thursday) to bring members a fresh look at interoperability in a world of open source solutions. With an increasing demand for data and information integration as organizations seek to optimize process performance, the half-day seminar will present interesting collaborative technologies between Microsoft and their respective companies. The event was held at the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) Resource Centre, drawing a crowd of 60 developers.

Mr Oliver Bell, Keynote speaker from Microsoft

The seminar kicked off at 2pm with a keynote speaker from Microsoft. Mr Oliver Bell, regional technical officer, Microsoft, gave a brief introduction and explained the key to interoperability. Through his years of experience, he was able to explain how the industry has evolved and how interoperability would help.

Attentive audience

The seminar covered various topics such as interoperability through virtualization and running PHP on windows server. Speakers from Novell Singapore, Zend Technologies Indonesia and SiTF provided the course information.

What NYP-SiTF SOA Centre can do?

The last speaker of the seminar was none other than Mr John Lim. He represents the NYP-SiTF SOA Centre to talk about interoperability capabilities of documents and spreadsheets using open XML. Seminar attendees also learnt of the test offerings of the SOA Interop Lab at NYP. By giving a good account of the SOA Centre, attendees were more aware of the support SiTF can provide.

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