From: David Presberg < Pres@mail2.gis.net >
Subject: Meeting Announcement: GBC/ACM, Thurs, Oct. 21, 1999
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:25 PM


                     The Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM
        will be having a Monthly Meeting on Thursday, October 21, 1999
          at BBN/GTE Newman Auditorium, 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge

                       Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
  The Use of Messaging Middleware in Financial and Related Application Areas
                                       
           Robert Herr, Middleware and Financial Protocol Architect
                           Open Finance Corporation

Meeting starts at 7:00 PM.  Refreshments at 6:30 PM.
(An optional pay-your-own dinner at Bertucci's, Alewife, follows the meeting.)

Description of messaging oriented middleware within the context of general
middleware solutions and application integration strategies.  This talk will
focus on the specific delivery technologies available, how to select basic
middleware strategies and offer itemized opinions on the current state of
messaging middleware.  Given that the primary focus of middleware
deployment is application integration we will detail some specific examples 
to compliment the technology discussions and present the advancing art of 
data description with respect to encoded messaging schemes, the use of XML 
and similar definition languages, the growth of industry protocols to support 
E-commerce and the use of messaging in Web based applications, both as a 
supporting technology for traditional servers and as a mechanism to use in 
creating true electronic communities.

Robert Herr is the primary architect in the effort to deploy middleware and 
Web technologies in multiple Financial Services environments. Although he
served as the technology leader for a number of middleware products spanning 
a CORBA predecessor to the Open Source reference in XML based streamed 
messaged delivery Robert has maintained a focused on the practice of 
application integration in financial services.  Through an affiliation with 
numerous universities and industry groups he has established a reputation 
for thoroughly understanding the business practices involved in the principle 
areas of Financial Front Office scenarios including FX, Fixed Income and 
Equity operations.  His most notable industry achievements include the
development of Financial Protocols including supplements to FIX, integration 
of NASDAQ, contingency and convertible orders and electronic FX Dealing.

-- David Presberg