webMethods goes Gold; anyone want to present?

SYS-CON Events has announced that webMethods has joined the SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo as a "Gold Sponsor." Gold sponsors for the 2006 show included Adobe, Apress, Backbase, CalAmp, Cassatt, Centric CRM, Chariot Solutions, Composite Software, Exadel, Ingres, Metallect, Optaros, OSS Nokalva, Parasoft, Rogue Wave Software, SugarCRM and Web Age Solutions.

The SOA World Expo will be held in tandem with the Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo in New York City on June 25 and 26 of this year. webMethods provides business process integration to some 1,400-plus large corporations and government agencies.

The call for papers for both expos is still open through January 31. (You’ve got time if you hurry.)

Potential topics include all development and management aspects of web services, Service-Oriented Architecture; all development and management aspects of open source technology is also on the table. For the SOA, ideal candidates are those with first-hand experience in the development and/or implementation of web services, .NET, MX, or Java applications, XML-based technologies, and service-oriented architectures in general.

For the open source expo, first-hand experience in building, deploying and developing the Open Source environment, perl, php, Python, Apache, Eclipse, Symbian, LAMP, MacLAMP, and/or mySQL are sought.