IBM, EU Create Research Consortium For Open Source

“IBM, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and
academia, is launching a research consortium which aims to help
businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services –
or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and
achieve shared business goals.

“The unique effort focuses on the development of a new computer
science model that will enable organizations to greatly accelerate
the typically time-intensive process around the coordination of
e-services and increase the automation and efficiency around
deploying new e-service blends. The research will enable even small
to mid-sized businesses to create or join into flexible e-service
blends, without investing in expensive IT expertise. The initiative
will create open-source software to enable many organizations
around the world take advantage of the technology.”

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