Events and some winter

Just concluded an interesting session in the NGOSS summit in Boston. Besides setting a record in cold weather due to an arctic blast which resulted in day time temperatures dropping to 13 degrees Farenheit (yes!), the event itself was pretty warm and hospitable.

Few memorable incidents:

• Anil being chilled to the bone wearing a light jacket instead of an overcoat in a horrid weather.
  
• SOA - instead of being pronounced as an acronym, was now being read as a word -"so-ah" (very weird. What's next ? e-bum for IBM??)
• Computer Associates getting into the SOA game for communications and essentially talking about governance as the next step of SOA maturity.
• BPM getting a lot of action: Progress Software, Vitria, Oracle, AMDOCS and everyone else looking at this as the next revenue avenue :)
• The Italian panelist wanting a royalty payment everytime someone said "Sphagetti" code :)
• The number of ways you can get de-Fraud-ed in telecom - really creative! - notes from our Interconnect expert from the Nordics.