Hi All,

There is some good news for May – two interesting and knowledgeable persons will most likely join us on 12th of May for a session “Business software and software business in London and beyond – corporate and personal views from The Square Mile”. The speakers are:

I am very glad that Jonathan and Diana promised to find time and spend few hours with us.

Diana will be between the trips to Merrill Lynch offices in New York and Hong Kong where she will be coordinating global deployment of an investment banking solution, while Jonathan is always on the move somewhere :) Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope their plans will not change.

Please book your calendars.

Myself, I will be with you this upcoming Saturday and the next one as well. There is a catch however – I need to hop between the flights in Nice this morning (in a few hours, in fact) – my BA flight from London is due to land at 9:45 in Nice and my LH flight to Frankfurt-Vilnius is scheduled for 11:00. So… I printed my boarding cards “at home” and just hope that there will be no delays at London Gatwick and I will do the trick. Otherwise… well, otherwise I will come on Friday to join you on Saturday ;)

I was privileged to attend a round-table discussion dinner with top-tier UK Government IT architects last evening for an interesting discussion about the role of SOA in Transformational Government. The event (organized by BEA Systems) was interesting, will share some thoughts with you. The things I heard there will also help me to defend the ground of the R4eGov project at the review meeting in Brussels next week.

Best regards, still from my beloved London, en route {Nice-London-Nice-Vilnius-Brussels-Vilnius-(kayak daytrip, Ula river)-Nice} ;)

Gotta pack and catch my red-eye flight.