My BOF on interoperbility is now scheduled on Monday, Sep 12, 9:30pm in room 511A.

Please join me for a vivid discussion on today's interoperability issues and their current and future solutions.

After a fairly wild start with the PDC this year (I nearly got no conference pass, since the show was sold out), I am now scheduled to go there and - lo' and behold - hold a BOF there. It will be on Monday night, at 9:30pm at the conference center, with the title: "Interoperability: .NET, Java, Windows and Solaris". I will talk about a few interoperability issues and their current solutions there, but also meander cautiosly towards a rough sketch of a roapmap.

After partially loosing my old blog here, I decided to get a fresh start. I will post a few of my older articles here, if I find the time.

While Liberty has a very rich framework for SSO, it does not define a comprehensive infrastructure protocol framework for SOAP/XML web services. While this might look as a limitation, it can also be a strength: it's non-dependance on SOAP, WSDL et al. makes Liberty a truely componentizable architecture, where SSO and Identity functionality can be applied to all kinds of Web Service technologies, including e.g. RESTful web services.

Since last week's Monday (March 7) I am in a new position within Sun: I am now working in the CTO's Business Alliances group, together with people like Eve Maler, Bill Smith, Lauren Wood and some more really smart people. We are working closely with different groups within Sun and Microsoft on making the alliance of the odd couple (Sun/Microsoft) a reality. I am truely looking forward to this challenge, since this group is in the unique situation of being able to influence not only Sun's but the entire industries perception of interoperablility and Web Services in particular.

To me, this is a long-due fine-adjustment to my tenure at Sun: I started with Sun Germany in 1997 as a pre-sales Systems Engineer responsible for "PC" Interoperability. Then - in 2000 - I took up a job with the (mostly) Boston-based Competitive Strategy Group. Our charter was to support the Sun Legal team on various occasions and supply them with Microsoft Interoperability Information...

This is going to be fun.