MetroSET Meeting: Thursday March 20th, 9:00 - 11:30AM
at PC Learn: 71 West 23rd Street, NY
Registration: arlene.cobeo@morganstanley.com
($25 for non-MetroSET members)

PLANNING FOR THIN TECHNOLOGIES
Speaker: Constantine Kaniklidis

Given the current and at least near-term projected economic times, companies need to increasingly and more effectively leverage thin technologies: lightweight technologies that avoids massive expenditures at the machine, infrastructure, software, and development process level, that are simpler and more intuitive, with smaller technical and related staffing requirements, and that in toto have a high ROI for a given relatively small or modest outlay. This overview briefing both predicts and presents the new concepts of thin technology, of its components and their deployment, and details how such technologies may maximize economies and total benefits to the enterprise.

The World of Thin Technology
       Defining Thin Technology
       The Major Predicted Thin Technologies

Grid Computing
       What is Grid Computing
       Mining the Grid

Thin Computing Technology
       Understanding Thin Computing
       The Citrix MetaFrame Model

Thin Server Technology
       Java-enabled Thin Web Servers (Java-enhanced IIS)
       VMT:  Virtual Machine Technology

LAMP
       Linux
       Apache Web Server
       mySQL
       PHP, Phyton, Perl

Enterprise XP
        Why XP?
        XP in the Enterprise

Web Services
        What are Web Services?
        Key Benefits of Web Services

Microsoft's .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET
        What is Microsoft's .NET
        Key Benefits of .NET
        Visual Studio.NET