SOA Reference Architecture; State of Portal Market From dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arch2archeditor/ See for yourself: BEA Systems' annual report on the enterprise portal market includes survey data on deployment and adoption from more than 540 BEA portal customers, plus a synthesis of more than 100 analyst reports and industry articles. Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software are also now available for download: "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007" and "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007.

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Zaha Hadid toys with nomadic architecture From Reuters The curved, fluid creation by Hadid was assembled in Hong Kong on the first leg of a two-year global promotional tour for contemporary art inspired by luxury goods brand Chanel. The "Mobile Art" pavilion, modeled along spiraling shapes found in nature, was designed to exhibit the work of 20 contemporary artists including Yoko Ono, Argentina's Leandro Erlich, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, The Blue Noses of Russia and Lee Bul of Korea.

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Critical Crossroads: Systems Methodology and Enterprise ... From BEYENetwork In looking at the approach presented for bringing the framework and the methodology together, it is applicable to the various development methodologies. What may vary are the sequence and the extent of the artifact, in that there are round trips through the framework views with the more iterative approaches as shown in Figure 2. RAD, or agile based, the framework artifacts tie back to the contextual and conceptual views. The approach presented in Part 1 for bringing the framework and the...

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Growing architecture firm moving into bigger digs From Bizjournals.com Ideas Architecture has added four new employees in the past year and is up to 11 total workers. Local projects that Ideas Architecture has helped design include the 52,000-square-foot Miller Motte Technical School and the 58,000-square-foot Cary Church of God. Growing market: Casa Latino seeks housing market niche.

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Editorial: Movie shoot reminds city of its architecture From Oshkosh Northwestern Director Michael Mann's decision to shoot scenes for his 1930s gangster biopic "Public Enemies" in Oshkosh is a reminder of how easy it is to take our community's classy architecture, historic buildings, neighborhoods and the people who step up to help preserve and spotlight it all for granted. Public Enemies aiming to immortalize Oshkosh architecture, would be the perfect time to encourage some new Landmarks Commission initiative and walking tour to, after the weather confidently turns,...

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