Richard Mark Soley, Executive Director, SOA Consortium, recorded at theMarch 2009 meeting of the SOA Consortium in Washington D.C is now available. Toaccess the podcast, visit http:// The SOA Consortium explores SOA`s relationship with hot technology and businesstopics. The March meeting featured a roundtable discussion on How SOAParticipates in a Green World. The roundtable, facilitated by SOA ConsortiumProgram Director Brenda Michelson, began with the industry experts sharing theirthoughts on how SOA contributes to the greening of business and IT, how BPMaugments SOA`s green factor, and the priority of sustainability initiatives inthe current economic climate. In their remarks, each roundtable leader spoke of economic benefits gained bycompanies and cities that reduce energy and water consumption and lower carbonemissions. Beyond greening data centers and application portfolios viaservice-oriented techniques, organizations are using business process managementtechniques - modeling, instrumentation and dashboards - powered by SOAunderpinnings, to optimize supply chains for both direct cost andsustainability.

An interesting metric shared by Sandy Carter is that for everydollar you save through carbon management, you save $6 of operational cost. After the opening insights, the roundtable leaders engaged in discussion witheach other and meeting attendees on a variety of topics including the greennessof cloud computing and virtualization, the transition of traditional hardwareproducts to software, carbon management mandates, the power of individual greenadvocates and the need for common, standardized key green indicators, or KGIs. To hear all of the insights from the roundtable, download the 35-minute podcastat http:// To read more about this podcast or toshare your views, visit the SOA Consortium`s SOA Insights blog at The next SOA Consortium meeting is in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 24, 2009.Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meetingshould visit the website, http:// or for more information. About The SOA ConsortiumThe SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers andtechnology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major governmentagencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service OrientedArchitecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members includeFortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail andTelecommunications.

Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7Technologies, MegaPractical, NEC Sphere, SPARX Systems and Sun Microsystems,Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agenciesand non-governmental organizations Any organization may join the SOAConsortium The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG. For more information, please visit http:// or . Note to editors: SOA Consortium, OMG and Object Management Group are trademarksof Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of theirrespective owners. OMGStephanie Covert, +Copyright Business Wire 2009. AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--The guaranty provided by the Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) for thedistrict's unlimited tax school building and refunding bonds, series 2000, wasnot reflected on the Fitch Ratings' web site With the guaranty, the bonds arerated 'AAA' The Rating Outlook is Stable.

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