Contribute to the European roadmap for Software & Software Services!

The European-funded project 3S has produced a Green Paper, showcasing the major challenges that will influence the area of software services and grid computing. Contributions will effectively transform into the ECSS White Paper defining common long-term views for key areas of S&S.

The On-Line Consultation Process now offers a collaborative space in the form of a wiki, where experts from the scientific and business communities, like you, can establish the basis for and take part in a productive Europe-wide dialogue between research, industry, and intermediaries in the IST field as a whole, and in software services area in particular.

I want to participate!

What’s in it for you?
○ You can influence the “ECSS White Paper” for the EC and the strategic planning of resources in FP7
○ You have the opportunity to be published at European level and have your voice heard by the EC and the community
○ You can participate in the process of shaping the legal framework for software services
○ You will be able to identify ideas and contacts for future projects and partnerships

+ for SMEs?:
○ Assure, that the “ECSS White Paper” will incorporate the special needs and views relevant for SMEs?
○ Let the successful SMEs? in the area of software services be visible at a European level  and let their policy issues be acknowledged

In order to contribute, you need to be a registered ECSS Community Member and log in. If you are not yet a  Community member, please register now!

If you are not familiar with Wiki, click on help to get assistance or you may contact the ECSS team by email at info@eu-ecss.eu

comments:

European Software Industry --sjaakbrinkkemper, Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:22:56 +0100 reply

Europe has a large variety of successful software companies that generate a several tens of billions of euros of economic value and hundreds of thousands of jobs based on innivative, high quality products. Well known representatives of the European software industry are SAP, Business Objects, Unit4Agresso, and Coda. However, 95% of the software companies are SMEs?(Small and Medium Enterprises) usually serving vertical niche markets in their own country. In several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Netherlands) the software companies have formed platforms for the exchange of software production knowledge and for software components. A European perspective for the software industry would enable to strengthen the companies performance by facilitating the entry in the various EU markets, by establishing standards for components interoperability, by providing a network for standard auxiliary components (autorisation and user registration, database drivers, error handling and logging, archiving and interruption management, analytics, usage feedback, etc.), and by providing a forum for knowledge exchange on the software production processes.

statement on UDDI --hs, Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:07:47 +0200 reply

The green paper states that "Since UDDI is not used, discovery as such does not really exist". This statement is too bold. The UBR approach certainly has failed, but not because of UDDI but because of lack of business value. And it was too early. SOA is about to start now. Registries are becoming more and more important for companies, basing on UDDI and JAXR. We can expect to see more demand on federating multiple company-specific regstries in the future. And by lack of any other accepted standard, UDDI and JAXR (maybe ebXML) will be the relevant interfaces