Panelists included SOA World Magazine editor-in-chief Sean Rhody (CSC), Open Source Specialist and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Debbie Moynihan (IONA), Nexaweb's founder and CTO and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Coach Wei, ColdFusion Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Simon Horwith (AboutWeb), and SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East speaker Jason Bloomberg (ZapThink). The panel was moderated by SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff.

Leading technologists--from Layer 7, Oracle, Thinstall, Nastel, Solstice Software, and iTKO--joined SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff in a discussion on SYS-CON.TV about the state of SOA and Virtualization among enterprise customers, the challenges they face in solving their customer needs, and the recent success they and their customers have experienced.

SYS-CON.TV panel discussion during the "RIA Shootout" compared Adobe's Flex, Microsoft's Silverlight, and Sun Microsystems' JavaFX technologies and hosted renowned i-technology industry commentators and SYS-CON bloggers such as Coach Wei, Kevin Hoffman, Debbie Moynihan, Mike Potter, and Yakov Fain, with moderator, SYS-CON publisher Roger Strukhoff.

SYS-CON Events announced that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West (www.ajaxworld.com) 'Call For Papers' is now open at the conference website and it will remain open until June 30, 2007. AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 24-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convetion Center, in Santa Clara, California.

SYS-CON Events announced that the 'Call for Papers' for the Real-World Java Seminar is now open. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, the Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event with three concurrent tracks and more than 30 sessions, is packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow delegates to take a fresh look at the architecture of your the projects they are working on now, and can serve as a roadmap for their further development as a Java professional.

'Flex Developer Bootcamp' is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. Flex Developer Bootcamp is a hands-on workshop that is not offered anywhere else: during this day attendees will create two fully functional applications. This workshop will be taught by Flex experts from Farata Systems Yakov Fain and Dr. Victor Rasputnis, co-authors of the book Developing RIA with Adobe Flex and Java.

SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXWorld University AJAX Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build high-quality AJAX applications from beginning to end.

SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as 'platinum sponsor.' IBM (www.IBM.com/SOA) is the world's leading technology provider of SOA and Web Services solutions.

Sun Distinguished Engineer Dr. Hal Stern will deliver the Introductory Keynote at the upcoming SOAWorld 2007 / Virtualization Conference at New York's Roosevelt Hotel on June 25. Stern, who also serves as VP of Global Systems Engineering at Sun, is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents.

Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. Greschler came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity.

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment, and storage systems. The company's products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. In addition to supporting InfiniBand, Mellanox's next generation of products support the industry-standard Ethernet interconnect specification.