Now Magazine: Global Village Enterprise Architecture Issues and Discussions http://www.nowmagnow.com/ Romania Creating a Vigorous Democracy After 2005, Romania received from the European Commission the status of functional market economy, which necessarily followed entrance into the EU. At present, Romania has what we call an emergent economy. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/democraticromania111.html Full Throttle for SOA Down Under Australians take great pride in being early adopters of technology, the same has proved true when it comes to implementing SOA. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/soainaustralia111.html Don't Tell Mom I'm doing SOA Don't tell French CIOs that SOA is a new paradigm for developing applications and architecturing information systems. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/soainfrance111.html SOA: Like Humans Learning to Fly Germany has developed the typical love-hate relationship with SOA. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/soaingermany111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT EU Status and NATO Membership Bolster Romania Romania became part of the EU and has opened new opportunities for foreign investment in this country. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/itinromania111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT SOA Interest is Here, But When Will IS Move in Unison? Japan's IS landscape is characterized by several technology platforms, proprietary systems and legacy applications working through very tight integration. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/soainjapan111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT India Has Outgrown the Outsourcing Model Use the word "outsourcing" in the United States, and it conjures up scary images of a posse of Indian software engineers who have displaced their American counterparts, and forced them to stack boxes of cereal in supermarkets for a living. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/0308/outsourcinginindia111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Great Resources, but Great IT? "Australia is like a very small country, with the twist that its cities are really, really far apart," says an IT journalist based in the Perth area. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/stories/australia111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Huge IT Potential Remains to be Developed Will Brazil ever become a global technology development leader? http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/stories/canada111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Is the Blackberry the End of IT Innovation Up North? The increasingly ubiquitous Blackberry represents a recent triumph of Canadian entrepreneurialism and technological thinking on the global stage. http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/stories/canada111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Turning Technology Use into IT Innovation How does Italy turn its great design tradition into technology innovation so that it can compete with the rest of the world? http://www.nowmagnow.com/talk-now/global-village/stories/italy111.html Wed, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT