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To: EEAT members and lurking participants!
EEAT has a great window of opportunity available to us. In the near future the Department of Education will begin examining the High Performance Channel for official usage in their systems. We need to capitalize on this opportunity now.
High Performance Channel is in production usage in the Meteor project. Yes, this means that is ready to go for us. There are some enhancements that need to be added to it so that we can answer the statements in the Web Services Gotchas (See the end of this note). However, we only have two hurdles left: technically the documentation is sub-par and there are business issues that need to be addressed. EEAT can fix the documentation, but, we need the commitment of a group of people who will make this happen. The documentation needs to be articulate and focused on three levels: Senior Management, General Management, and Technical Implementers.
What risks exist if we do not complete this documentation? First, the Department will not be able to make an informed decision on this technology roadmap that we have designed. Lacking reasonable implementation information, they will be forces to choose another method of accomplishing their needs. Some of these methods could result in a new and intensive coding effort, duplicating the work and money that EEAT members have already expended. Other methods could require a large outlay of funds to buy proprietary systems. Both methods would contribute to additional technologies that our companies need to contend with.
John Gill EEAT
Web Services Gotchas: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-gotcha/
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