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<H1>TOOLS USA 2001 Keynotes</H1>
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Don Box</a>, DevelopMentor, USA
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Timothy Chou</a>, CEO, Oracle Business Online, USA 
<a class="abstract" href="abstracts/keynotes/chou.html" onMouseOver="abstext('<h2 class=abstract>Keynote: Timothy Chou</h2><h2 class=papertitle>E-business now</h2><p class=abstract>Some companies will make it. Others won&acute;t. To insure a smooth, successful e-business transformation, today&acute;s business leaders must take control of their organizations and begin driving the necessary changes from the executive levels down. To do this - and do it quickly - you&acute;ve got to understand what changes are required and what challenges - and benefits - you can expect along the way.  <p class=abstract> So ask yourself, do you know how to get your company moving toward its e-business transformation?'
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Lisa Farr</a>, Occam Networks
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State of the industry: converging voice, video and data
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Alan Kay</a>, Walt Disney, USA
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Stuart McClure</a>, Foundstone, USA
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Hacking = privacy: How computer hacking can shore up your defenses and deliver the closest ideal to security available
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Bertrand Meyer</a>, ISE, USA
<a class="abstract" href="abstracts/keynotes/meyer.html" onMouseOver="abstext('<h2 class=abstract>Keynote: Bertrand Meyer</h2><h2 class=papertitle>The software market: products, or services?</h2><p class=abstract>The advent of the Web and Web Services as the frame of reference for just about everything regarding software, and the increasing difficulties faced by many software providers, have made even more burning the issue of how we must treat and sell software: as a product, or as a service. This presentation will examine the issue from the commercial, legal and technical sides, risking a few predictions on the evolution of the software market in the century of the Internet.'
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Eric Schultz</a>
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Michael Stal</a>, Siemens, Germany:
<a class="abstract" href="abstracts/keynotes/stal.html" onMouseOver="abstext('<h2 class=abstract>Keynote: Michael Stal</h2><h2 class=papertitle>Web services - moving towards an agile Web</h2><p class=abstract> Today, many Web-based products and software systems must continuously evolve in E-Time. Nonetheless, they must be easily changeable, extensible, and reveal many other non-functional properties. The question arises how software systems can be prepared to cope with these requirements? Conventional applications are driven by a specific set of requirements that is stable during development, at least in theory. Applications may be extended after their rollout, but their usage context is mostly unchanged. This approach doesn&acute;t work anymore for a Web-based world. Here, new applications must be developed with change and integration in mind. This requires a more framework-like approach where the same applications may participate in different contexts. <p class=abstract>To support this kind of flexibility, we need to increase entropy. That means, applications shouldn&acute;t make too many assumptions a priori where they run and how they interact. Everything should be loosely coupled. Meta-information should be decentralized. For this purpose, applications need to resort to standards and minimize dependencies on other applications. This does not only hold for inter-application interaction, but also for intra-application boundaries. Thus, we should partition applications into decoupled services we can compose to completely new applications previously not anticipated. <p class=abstract>In other words: we need agile software technologies for an agile world. What we finally get is a world of services that interoperate and interact with each other using Web-based standards. Finally, we have reached the universe of Web Services and Web-based middleware.  '
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