One of the major information technology issues for large corporations is the installation, interfacing and integration of enterprise applications and packages. The object community has done a great deal of innovative work on distributed architectures and interfaces. Unfortunately this work has not yet had a major impact in the area of Enterprise Applications and Packages. The purpose of this symposium is to initiate an ongoing dialogue on the potential applications of object technology to the critical issue of Enterprise Application Integration.
The symposium will consist of three panels focus on end-user perspective, middleware, and standards.
An End-user Corporate Perspective Chair: Bob Marcus, General Motors
Middleware: Fitting the pieces together Chair: David Depinet, Shell Services International
Component Interoperability Standards Chair: Bruce Ambler - Lucent Technology