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OS4B Yorkshire Employers Forum

This is a sub-group of the OS4B project. It is designed for Business Owners and Upper level Managers to feed back into the project how to gain the best from our development money by informing the project where there is a shortage of skills.

The focus of this group is about leveraging the benefits for Open Source for their Business.

It is not a private group and exists as a virutal group as well as a physical group. There will be quarterly meetings for the members to meet and discuss matters of an open source and provide their feedback. Some time will also be given to reflecting on what the group has raised discussed through the online forum.

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RE: [os4b] Vendor agnostic SOA training

Hi Rob,

Most of UK Plc and UK Govt uses SOA in one shape or another, even if
it's only to call out to the odd basic SOAP webservice. At the other end
of the scale, full blown ESB, workflow engines, orchestration (WSFL,
BPEL, JBPM et al) are increasing in popularity and already feature as
the backbone of some top end enterprise systems, and 're-architected'

Re: [os4b] Vendor agnostic SOA training

I would add Apache based open source projects - Apache ServiceMix and
Apache Camel into the mix. They work really well together - and have
been deployed in global organizations - like Sabre Holdings, CVS and
many, many more.

thanks,

Rob Davies

Rob Davies
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Vendor agnostic SOA training

Hi all. We (Leeds Met) are hoping to run some vendor-agnostic SOA
training courses during 2010. It would be very useful if you can let
me know of any competitors in this area that you are aware of, and if
you think most businesses in the region (or even UK-wide) are at a
stage where SOA is becoming important enough to get skilled up on. Any

FW: Open Source Adoption Survey

This analyst organisation is asking about Open Source adoption. Whilst
all the questions aren't relevant to all of us It would be useful if
OS4B members could respond, and maybe even pass onto open source friends
and family(!)

The results will be interesting, but only significant if enough folk
respond.

Placement Program: 30 days to make a difference

Hi OS4B Members.

Firstly,
a quick note to remind you that there's a learning lunch in Barnsley
today where we're talking Open Source. Its at BBIC
[link] <[link]> .

Secondly:
Could you use an extra pair of willing hands? We have developed a new
placement program putting students into the workplace combining work

Many thanks,

dan

2009/9/28 Gifford, Geoffrey

UK OSS Policy

"The UK has one of the best-written [Open Source] policies out there - the problem is policing it,"

You may have seen a rash of press releases on this topic from Ingres recently.
Eg: [link]

Our experience is that there is a lot of lip service to Open Source software at the enterprise & Gov't level, but inertia or

RE: [os4b] A pause for reflection...

Just a note to say that your list of potential new courses looks very
interesting

Three comments

a) Amazon web services - that should be of value across the region

b) Sun - presumably that includes their Java cert and MySQL offering,
as well as OS stuff

c) C++ seems a bit off model for the OS4B mission

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