Manes looks at what the trend toward superplatforms means today and for the future. She examines future superplatform components like SOA enablement and RFID infrastructure and looks at the market effects as mid-tier providers find themselves stuck between comprehensive superplatforms and open-source solutions.
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Anne Thomas Manes is APS Research Director with Burton Group, a research and consulting firm. Manes is a widely recognized industry expert on Web Services. She is the author of Web Services: A Manager's Guide. In 2002, NetworkWorld named Manes one of the 50 most powerful people in networking. The previous year she received a similar honor from Enterprise Systems Journal, who listed her among the 2001 Power 100 IT Leaders. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous articles. She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal. Manes participates in Web Services standards development efforts at JCP, W3C, and OASIS. Before joining Burton Group, Manes took a sabbatical and spent six months writing her book. She formed Bowlight at that time to host her independent consulting activities. Prior to that she was the Chief Technology Officer at Systinet, the web services infrastructure company. Before joining Systinet, Manes was Director of Market Innovation at Sun Microsystems, where she pioneered Sun's Web Services strategies. She also served as a Senior Analyst with Patricia Seybold Group, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the "Distributed Computing Monitor" newsletter. Manes developed her expertise working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies. She maintains the weblog The View From the Bow.
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