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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>September
12, 2006 2:30-5:00 PM ET Meeting Information</span></font><font size=1
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w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">7900 Westpark Drive, Suite A110</st1:Street> <st1:City
w:st="on">McLean</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">VA.</st1:State></st1:address></span></font><font
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Owen Taylor, Director of Technical Communications, GigaSpaces </span></font><font
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size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:black;font-weight:bold'>: </span></font></b><font size=1
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>"Space-Based Architecture and the End of Tier-Based
Computing"<br>
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Most business applications are architected using a tier-based approach
(presentation, business logic, data tier). The emergence of powerful and new
commodity HW and the introduction of SOA/Grid architectures touts the promise
of achieving true linearly-scalable systems at a lower cost. However, as we
shall see in this presentation, these new platforms and architectures are not
aligned with the existing tier-based approach, which is by definition
centralized and static.<br>
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During the presentation, a new approach will be introduced - Space Based
Architecture (SBA). It is basically a combination of Distributed Caching, SOA
and Grid concepts combined into a single coherent architecture optimized for
high-performance data-intensive applications, which transforms existing
tier-based applications into linearly and dynamically scalable services.
Towards the end we will also discuss a real-life example of a financial
application that was built using the SBA. We will explore the patterns used
to achieve this goal and explore how it can be applied to other applications
with similar requirements. </span></font><font size=1 color=black
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please register at <a
href="http://www.bwbug.org/Meeting_Registration.php">http://www.bwbug.org/Meeting_Registration.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mike Fitzmaurice<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>703-973-9054<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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