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To: axial who wrote (20873)	4/15/2007 5:07:30 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Nicely stated. I came across and ultimately posted the list because I've been caught up recently in a "period of enlightenment," we'll call it, stemming from my use of a high order abstraction to make a point about a narrow subject area. Of course, such an approach, usually through the use of simile or metaphor, can often become derailed in mixed social settings where like memes are scarce, i.e., where participants possess numerous and diverse backgrounds. But what of those situations where we simply use concepts that were taught to us incorrectly and those concepts are widely accepted across multiple disciplines? Say, for example, where conventional current flow theory, positive to negative, collided with other teachings related to electron and hole flow theories? Those are just examples, but I think they make my point. That is, assuming one is aware of what those theories are and knows the differences between them, which, I suppose, makes yet a second, and probably an even more important, point. ------

To: axial who wrote (20873)	4/15/2007 5:48:57 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Telecom Finally Goes Web New services, new business challenges by Keith Willetts \| March 1. 2007 Telecommunications Magazine For the past couple of years, we’ve been hearing a lot about Web 2.0, which sees the Web as an enabling platform for a number of next-generation services such as collaboration, wikis and blogging, or sites like Google, Flickr and eBay. Web 2.0 is already turning the services industry on its head, and we’re finally starting to see how telecom players can engage rather than seeing these services bypass communications and their value “going over the top” of their businesses. Continued at: telecoms-mag.com ---- Interestingly, the author chairs the TM Forum (Telecommunications Management Forum), which, for two decades or more and at least one name change that I can recall, has been attempting to use, with varying degrees of success, an object oriented system architecture to effect the same kinds of innovations and architectural changes in network provisioning, customer care, billing and network monitoring that he now refers to under the umbrella headings of Web (2.0) and service oriented architecture, or SOA. What author Willetes doesn't spend a whole lot of time on, however, and quite understandably considering his station, is the fact that Web 2.0 tools are so simple to use that the barrier to entry for competitors in this regard has been dramatically lowered, and worse, that end users are already using these techniques on their own to create the same or better types of "services" on their own appliances at the edge of the network, that the carriers would otherwise like to sell from within. FAC ------