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The devil in the details Title: The devil in the details
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Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on October 04, 2007

Paul Murphy and his contrarian, plain-spoken ways are at it again, this time pointing out that vendor-written contracts and EULAs have no clothes. Or at least, nothing that will fit the buyer....

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Surviving the cold wastelands of IT projects Title: Surviving the cold wastelands of IT projects
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Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on October 02, 2007

Couple of new resources on the subject of getting up to speed and appropriately managing IT projects today, so I thought I would throw up a quick article with some links. First, from Information...

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IT and business process management Title: IT and business process management
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Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on September 25, 2007

Just wanted to throw up a quick link to Nick Malik's recent post on MSDN on the benefits and pitfalls of IT involvement in business process management functions. I think he's dead-on in his...

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Execution is where it's at Title: Execution is where it's at
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Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on September 24, 2007

And I have to admit I was hoping for more detail on that most important of matters when I started in on this CIO magazine article on the pitfalls of making strategy stick. But it's worth a quick...

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Viva la Revolution! Title: Viva la Revolution!
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Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on September 20, 2007

So what about the folks on the other side of the wire from you, the CIO, and your loyal army of IT staff? How do they feel about all this stuff that we are talking about all the time,......

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SOA Pretty high on the Hype Cycle - Nucleus Research Title: SOA Pretty high on the Hype Cycle - Nucleus Research
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on August 21, 2007

Infoworld has an article highlighting a report by Nucleus Research, below are excerpts from the same: In a study entitled "Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture," Nucleus Research and...

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Conversation with EVP EDS Apps Services - Charlie Feld Title: Conversation with EVP EDS Apps Services - Charlie Feld
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on July 29, 2007

EDS' Senior Executive Vice President of Applications Services, Charlie Feld, spoke at the JPMorgan 35th Annual Technology Conference, Below are some excerpts from the transcript. Demand for IT...

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Case Study: SOA - Bearning point, Schawk Title: Case Study: SOA - Bearning point, Schawk
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on July 29, 2007

AMR Research's most recent survey showed 46% of companies are considering or implementing their first service-oriented architecture (SOA) project within the next two years. (Dated starting of...

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IT Spending Subdued... Title: IT Spending Subdued...
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on April 29, 2007

CIO Magazine Tech Poll results as highlighted by Computerworld: IT spending projections declined in March, as CIOs predicted spending increases of 5.1% for the next 12 months, down from 5.8% in...

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US IT Services Pricing - Forrester Title: US IT Services Pricing - Forrester
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on April 10, 2007

Sean Sweeney of Forrester has a report with the same title, below are some interesting excerpts from the same: Consulting rates in 2007 have increased slightly compared with 2006 because of demand in...

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Talent Management - Wipro's Take Title: Talent Management - Wipro's Take
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on March 31, 2007

There has been a lot of talk about talent shortage in India, during the investor presentation of Wipro they covered a section on talent management here are some excerpts: Source: 1 Prashanth Rai......

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China the HR Challenges - IBM Study Title: China the HR Challenges - IBM Study
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on March 23, 2007

IBM recently announced the findings of a new study which concludes that in order for multinational companies to succeed in China they will need to develop strategies that focus more on China's...

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Morrisons a IT makeover Title: Morrisons a IT makeover
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on March 19, 2007

Morrisons is to invest £110m over the next three years to improve its IT infrastructure - but don't expect any radical changes from the supermarket chain. Mark Bolland, chief executive officer...

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The consolidation continues - EDS to Acquire RelQ Software Title: The consolidation continues - EDS to Acquire RelQ Software
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on March 12, 2007

EDS today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately owned Bangalore, India-based software testing company. Over time, RelQ will be fully...

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Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy - Mckinsey Title: Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy - Mckinsey
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on February 26, 2007

Excerpts from Mckinsey article titleld "Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy" Focusing exclusively on bottom-line costs, however, limits the top-line potential. By forgoing...

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IDC Predictions - European Services 2007 Title: IDC Predictions - European Services 2007
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on February 18, 2007

The theme of IT Skills shortage is becoming a truly global one, in a recent IDC Teleconference titled "IDC Predictions:European Services, 2007" by Marianne Kolding & Mette Ahorlu, there...

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Windows 2003 or Linux - Lower TCO Title: Windows 2003 or Linux - Lower TCO
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 24, 2007

For sometime now we havent had this discussion and than recently i saw this report from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows 2003 versus Linux in Indian...

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Forget CEO / CIO, the future is CCO / COO Title: Forget CEO / CIO, the future is CCO / COO
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 09, 2007

No I really haven't lost it, this is what occurred to me after reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog post yesterday, this is just an initial brain dump of thoughts will flesh it out in posts...

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IT Financial Manager / CFO - Silver bullet for IT ROI ??? Title: IT Financial Manager / CFO - Silver bullet for IT ROI ???
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 04, 2007

Implementing technology to help their companies become more streamlined and easier to do business with is the No. 1 business priority for 1400 CIO's worldwide surveyed by Gartner. To help...

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IT Spending growing - Steady, But Conservative!!! - Alinean Title: IT Spending growing - Steady, But Conservative!!! - Alinean
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 04, 2007

Continuing on the posts on IT Spending, Came across another report by Alinean ( Hat tip Sadagopan) which has a report covering the topic, below are excerpts from the same: Analysis based on study of...

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IT's First Look in 2007 - Forrester Title: IT's First Look in 2007 - Forrester
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 03, 2007

Below are excerpts on the IT Scenario in 2007 based on a newsletter from Forrester: 1. Growth in European IT spending is starting to match or exceed US IT spending - European IT spending will grow by...

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ITO, BPO, SaaS,On Demand - It's all about the service!!! Title: ITO, BPO, SaaS,On Demand - It's all about the service!!!
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on January 03, 2007

Phil Waineright is doing a series on the trends he is expecting in the SAAS space in this year (2007), first two parts of the series are on reaching out to offline users & Composition instead of...

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TCS to focus on e-Gov projects Title: TCS to focus on e-Gov projects
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 31, 2006

"There is a huge market for e-governance projects across the globe, especially in developing countries. In three years, about 50% of revenues will flow in from international markets and this...

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Eight Trends of Manufacturing for 2007 - EDS Title: Eight Trends of Manufacturing for 2007 - EDS
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 30, 2006

EDS predicts that eight major trends will influence companies in 2007, As manufacturers continue to watch shrinking margins, they are facing unprecedented challenges developing products in a...

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SAP to go slow on hiring! Title: SAP to go slow on hiring!
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 27, 2006

An article in Bloomberg highlights the plan to reduce hiring in SAP, As inidcated by Claus Heinrich an SAP board member in charge of personnel.: Excerpts: The ratio of new software engineers to total...

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China & India IT Outsourcing 1 Title: China & India IT Outsourcing 1
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 18, 2006

In August we had a post up titled "China & India IT Outsourcing" in which we highlighted a pool in which 35% felt that China will overtake India as the next hub for IT outsourcing...

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L&T Infotech acquires GDA Technologies Title: L&T Infotech acquires GDA Technologies
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 17, 2006

L&T Infotech which was ranked 10nth by Nasscom's Top 20 IT Software & Service exporters from India (2005-06) list, has signed an agreement to acquire GDA Technologies and all its design...

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Large companies to lower IT Spend Title: Large companies to lower IT Spend
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 17, 2006

Information week has an article on this topic highlighting comments from Gartner ...Excerpts below: Organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue have lowered their IT spending projections for...

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Mobile Enterprise Application Market will reach $3.5 Billion by 2010 - IDC Title: Mobile Enterprise Application Market will reach $3.5 Billion by 2010 - IDC
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 17, 2006

An IDC study forecasts strong growth for the worldwide mobile enterprise application (MEA) market. "Vendors and organizations alike must recognize that MEAs are not just about mobilizing a...

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SMB spending up 17% - AMI Partners Title: SMB spending up 17% - AMI Partners
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 17, 2006

Small and medium businesses, those with fewer than 1,000 employees, worldwide are on track to spend US$2.44 billion on hosted/SaaS CRM and ERP/SCM in 2007, up some 17 percent over 2006 levels,...

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Delivering successful IT-Enabled business change Title: Delivering successful IT-Enabled business change
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on December 14, 2006

Michael Krigsman points to a report released by the UK National Audit Office, on the subject of IT project failures.The NAO report features some two dozen IT-enabled programmes and projects, from both...

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Zoho.....Has a winner Title: Zoho.....Has a winner
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 30, 2006

Today i got a mail from Arvind of Zoho...On an update they made, I strongly beleive that all the 3 updates are WINNERS, and will increase my usage by leaps and bounds...and definitely will increase...

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IBM an ERP Company - Redmonk Title: IBM an ERP Company - Redmonk
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 30, 2006

James from Redmonk is at the IBM annual analyst conference and has post up on Steve Mill's (Group GM IBM Software) presentation check it out . Below is an excerpt that i found interesting:...

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Wipro's Apporach to Attrition Title: Wipro's Apporach to Attrition
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 26, 2006

Attrition & People are the greatest concern for IT Services firms, just read the article on Wipro's revised approach - People Pulse , the people tracker colour-codes every Wipro employee -...

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17 Million Developers by 2009 - Evans Data Corp Title: 17 Million Developers by 2009 - Evans Data Corp
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 24, 2006

Tekrati is carrying a summary of a report on Global Developer Population and Demographics Report by Evans Data Corporation. Some interesting excerpts: The projected global software developer...

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SOA driven IT Recruitment Title: SOA driven IT Recruitment
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 22, 2006

Architects will be the glue that binds IT to business strategy, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one example of the "new wave" of IT delivering business value by cutting...

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SME IT Priorities Revealed - OnDemand Title: SME IT Priorities Revealed - OnDemand
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 22, 2006

Found an article on the SAP site which talks about SME's and specifically their interest in SME's. Below are excerpts from the same: On-demand software applications are in growing demand by...

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Infor Global Solutions - Growing Gaint Title: Infor Global Solutions - Growing Gaint
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 20, 2006

Midmarket applications vendor Infor Global Solutions continues to buy out its peers to become a US$3 billion business within a year.With Infor's most recent purchases of SSA Global, Extensity and...

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SaaS Adoption plans ....Growing Title: SaaS Adoption plans ....Growing
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 20, 2006

Phil Wainewright has a post up covering the SIIA OnDemand Summit, Below are some excerpts from the same: Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the...

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Indian IT Services Industry - On going Analysis - Trend 1 ( Increased Cost In India) Title: Indian IT Services Industry - On going Analysis - Trend 1 ( Increased Cost In India)
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 14, 2006

Following up on the series, here is trend 1: Increasing costs in India Close to 50% of cost of most Indian IT Services companies are their people, talent cost have been on the raise for some time now....

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Indian IT Services Industry - Ongoing Analysis - OVERVIEW Title: Indian IT Services Industry - Ongoing Analysis - OVERVIEW
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 13, 2006

Have been thinking about the Indian IT Services industry in general, So i thought i will put down a post listing some facts of the industry and and trends that are impacting the industry. First is a...

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India as a market for IT / ITES Title: India as a market for IT / ITES
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 09, 2006

Nasscom and IDC have published a report discussing the current size and future potential and direction of India as IT Services and ITES-BPO market.The key output of the study seems to be the...

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Wipro Roars - Steven Hamm Title: Wipro Roars - Steven Hamm
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 29, 2006

I was reading the first chapter of the Bangalore TIGER, The book by author Steve Hamm examines the rise of India as a destabilizing force in the $650 billion worldwide tech services industry. He...

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IBM labs to connect the dots between business & IT Title: IBM labs to connect the dots between business & IT
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 29, 2006

IBM is endevouring to solve the biggest problem of them all, communication between IT & business, they seem to have in place a software technology, "Dot2Dot," that was created at...

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Capgemini acquires Kanbay Title: Capgemini acquires Kanbay
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 28, 2006

2006-Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services, and Kanbay International, a global IT services firm focused on the financial services...

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2007 IT Salary Guide Arrives - Baseline Title: 2007 IT Salary Guide Arrives - Baseline
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 28, 2006

Baseline has an article up higlighting IT Salaries for the next year, Excerpts from this: Starting salaries for IT pros are expected to increase an average of 2.8 percent in 2007 over 2006, and more...

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Future of IT - EDS Title: Future of IT - EDS
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 28, 2006

Jeff Wacker a EDS fellow has a post up on thier blog on the future IT, below are some excerpts from the same: Faster Exponential ITFlattening WorldUbiquitous EdgePredictabilityFrom Push to PullA...

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BA on "Lean" Tech Title: BA on "Lean" Tech
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 26, 2006

Silicon.com has an article highlighting British Airways move towards LEAN Tech, a concepts which seems to be gaining ground these days. Below are excerpts from the article: British Airways (BA) is...

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IBM's new Service Products!! Title: IBM's new Service Products!!
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 25, 2006

Following up on the earlier set of Service Product offering, as indicated during the initial announcement - highlighted in the post here, now IBM Middleware Services & IBM Storage and Data...

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Whats the talk about Indian Talent !!! Title: Whats the talk about Indian Talent !!!
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 23, 2006

In December of last year i wrote a post highlighting the Nasscom & Mckinsey report it indicated clear diconnect between the demand & supply in the talent market, Here is an quote from the same...

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SOA and re-use Title: SOA and re-use
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on October 04, 2006

Came across a couple of posts by Joe McKendrick's on SOA and reusability and he has an interesting conversation with a couple of other blogger's specifcially David Chappel and Harry...

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