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This conversation unearthed interesting examples of business andmission capabilities dependent on stable and accurate data, but delivered viamash-ups In closing, Mr. Altman offered a final thought all heartily agreedupon, "We are not paid to write code, we are paid to deliver systems." To hear the entire discussion Mr. Altman led, download the 64-minute podcast andaccompanying slide presentation at http:// To readmore about this podcast or to share your views, visit the SOA Consortiums SOAInsights blog at The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Washington, D.C., USA on March 25-26,2009. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending themeeting should visit the website, http:// or for more information.

About The SOA ConsortiumThe SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers andtechnology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major governmentagencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service OrientedArchitecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members includeFortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail andTelecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7Technologies, NEC Sphere, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc.Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies andnon-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium.The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG. For more information, please visit http:// or . Note to editors: SOA Consortium, OMG and Object Management Group are trademarksof Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of theirrespective owners.

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