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Here is the information regarding the presentation done by AGENCY.COM.
The BEA Users Conference is being held in San Francisco, CA 2/21-2/24. The conference has over 2,000 registered users representing many types of companies. About the Session and Presentation On Wednesday, February 23 at 11:00 an hour long session was to open to any registered conference attendee. Around 200 (very rough guess) people attended the session. The session was moderated by Scott Dietzen, CTO BEA Server Division and was described as 'Web E-Commerce Solutions: Using Best of Breed Technologies'. The session included 4 panel members from Calico Commerce (an ISV), Idea Integration (an integrator), Cygent (an ISV) and AGENCY.COM. Each of the 4 panel members gave a 12 minute presentation then the session was turned over for general questions and answers. Joe Tatem of AGENCY.COM went last and spoke about the web development marketplace: where it was and where it needed to head. Like the other panel members he described his company and gave a little sales pitch for BEA Weblogic. Tatem then presented a case study as an example of some of their work. This example was of AGENCY.COM's work for Enron on EnronOnline. His case study consisted of 2 slides. The first slide had screen images of EnronOnline: one was the EnronOnline home page and the second was the quotes page populated with some products. The quotes page was 'overlayed' on the home page and obscured the EnronOnline banner on the bottom so that only the 'ne' at the end showed. The Enron logo (the counter-clockwise 45-degree logo was clearly visible. He talked about it being a Trading Extranet site but said he could not name the customer. He described that real time prices for products were being displayed to customers. He then showed the next slide which gave a high level overview of the application architecture for EnronOnline. This slide contains details about real time server (RTServer) and its associated application server (including the RMI communication mechanism). He made a comment about how they were particularly proud of the real time piece and how it was designed and how it worked. This slide also contained a reference to the fact EnronOnline uses Oracle 8i. He also mentioned Jesica as the content management piece and indicated that they were looking at other 3rd party products to replace that in their future projects. This slide also contains a reference to StackManager and he indicated that it was developed by the unamed client and not by AGENCY.COM. He also talked about ShockWave plugin being used in the browser to receive the real time quotes. Only one question was asked from the audience during his showing of the technical architecture slide. This question (paraphrased) was: When you use RMI between the web server and the app server how many connections do you use. He replied (paraphrased): one per thread. The questioner then asked something else that I assumed was a technical detail about how WebLogic RMI worked. Tatem replied incorrectly and a BEA employee responded with the right answer. About the Handouts of the Presentation BEA tried to make available hard copies of all presentation slides in each session. They setup a series of shelves that were numbered for each session. The documents were available starting Monday during the registration process and throughout the conference. On Monday evening I went to pick up hard copies of the sessions for which I was interested. About a third of the handouts for the sessions were not available. I did not notice whether the one for above mentioned presentation was available. (I did not expect it to one of the more interested ones.) During some of the sessions BEA handed out copies to those present. I did not see any handed out during the above mentioned session. After the session was over I called Jay Webb and told him of the above details. After telling Jay I saw Scott Dietzen from BEA in the hallway. (I had met him twice before.) I told Dietzen that the presentation that AGENCY.COM did in his panel was about Enron. (We had already discussed the project with Dietzen when he visited our Houston office.) I told him that AGENCY.COM was not supposed to reveal any information concerning the project. At this time I did not know that hard copies of the presentation were available. I told Dietzen that if they did become available that the portion about EnronOnline should not be distributed. Dietzen said he was not aware of the problem with discussing the project. He apologized and said he would not distribute any handouts if he received them. Sometime later on Wednesday I went to the rack of presentation handouts and there was one available for the above mentioned session. I do not know how long they were available (and I don't think Dietzen did either). There were only 2 or 3 copies left and I took all of them. (BEA usually put out many copies in the rack so I don't know how many were actually picked up.) The hard copies are PowerPoint printouts that include room for notes so the slides are very small making it difficult to read. When the slides were shown on the screen during the session they were very clear. Also, during some of the sessions (not the one where AGENCY.COM presented) I attended there was some question about the availability of the handouts and someone from BEA would answer something about the web. I assumed that at some point in the near future they might be making copies of the presentations available on the BEA web site. I will try to confirm this tomorrow (Thursday). I checked the web site a few minutes ago and the presentations are not there. I will followup with any more details if I remember something else or if there are any further developments. Thanks, Kevin Montagne Voice: 713-853-1903 Cell: 281-703-5779 Pager: 800-893-4390
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