Color Shined at the Daily Positive (D+) South-East Asia Carnival 2013

The month of March 2013 was full of South-East Asian celebrations around the world as part of the D+ Carnival. People from North-America to South-East Asia participated in the carnival and shared their joys and delights in South-East Asian style.
 

The carnival gave everyone an opportunity to get-together and shares the warmth. This year  D+ volunteers organized various events in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Serbia, the United States and others.
 

This is the second time D+ organized such carnival after the inaugural African carnival in 2012. D+ experienced greater number of supports and encouragements this year. It made the D+ team more determined to bring the best of the world to the readers.
 

On behalf of D+, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for participating at the South-East Asia Global Carnival 2013. We are delighted to share some pictures of different events organized by D+ volunteers and well-wishers.
 

 

For more on the Carnival visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Daily_Positive_Carnival

It’s Time For The 2013 South-East Asia Global Carnival

The DailyPositive (D+) global carnival to celebrate the South-East Asian cultures is here during the month of March 2013. The aim of the carnival 2013 is to indulge, celebrate and convey happiness and pleasure from the continent of South-East Asia.

Daily Positive (D+), a web-based non-profit news media from Melbourne, Australia which exclusively publishes positive news on each country of the world, is organizing the carnival. The annual D+ carnival intends to promote and share focused positive news and stories from a specific location in the world and this year the carnival aimed to embrace the South-East Asian flavor.

D+ conducting Presentations, Social media promotions, Focused news collection workshops, Student volunteering works and Social gatherings around the globe as part of the carnival. Apart from that thousands of D+ readers, academics, researchers, students, fans and volunteers around the world are celebrating the month with various events.

Everyone can help spread the celebrations by organizing small gatherings in their local areas, at homes, on the web and also by sharing some attractive pictures and videos from South-East Asia. In order to encourage the local events D+ is sending e-Resources to the organizers. Everyone can share their event news, pictures and videos with D+ at info@dailypositive.org.

The annual D+ carnival creates an occasion for everyone to celebrate a randomly chosen culture in each corner of the world.  It intends to bring real harmony among global citizens and hopes it will give back a sense of opportunity, friendship and positive cross cultural learning throughout the global community.

 

For more details on the carnival visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Daily_Positive_Carnival

Thank You from the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 initiative

On behalf of Daily Positive (D+), we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their enthusiasms, excitements and supports for the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 (WMPC'12) initiative. Following last year’s grand success, this year it was observed with more passions and thrills.

Congratulation again to the winners of the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012: United States of America, Australia, England, China, Japan, Germany, Canada, France, India and Sweden.

A summary of the presentation ceremony is provided in the following:
What: World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 (WMPC'12) initiative presentation ceremony
When: Sunday, 25 November 2012, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
Where: 1888 Building - Gryphon Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Map http://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/198)
Event Details:

1. Industry Presentation (10 Minutes)
   Title: "BigData, doing the right thing", Presenter: Paul Hodge, Principal Consultant – Infocentric, Description: Exploring three real-world case studies, this presentation will illustrate how BigData is being used for positive social impact.
2. Daily Positive (D+) Founder Speech and Presentation (20 Minutes)
   Title: World’s Most Positive Countries 2012, Presenter: Dr. Arif Jubaer Description:  Presenting facts related to World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 and other researches with social media, data management and environmental science.
3. Refreshment / Lunch

Congratulation to Nick Cody from Australia and Tiffany Husin from Indonesia for winning the D+ Volunteer award for their great supports to D+ at the presentation ceremony and Carolina Aurora from Chile for winning the D+ Facebook Fan award for her vibrant online participation.

Here are few images from the presentation on 25 November 2012. For more visit http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive

 

 

For more on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 (WMPC'12) initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

The United States of America Crowned the World’s Most Positive Country for 2012

Daily Positive (D+), an exclusive online media for positive news, is pleased to announce the top 10 winners of the World’s Most Positive Countriesfor 2012. In the second year of the award series, the United States of America took the top position from last year’s winner Australia.

The World’s Most Positive Countries initiative recognizes the positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world.  Based on the accomplishments, D+ publishes an annual list of 10 most positive countries. The top 10 World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 along with respective ranking points are as follows: 

1. United States of America (905)
2. Australia (831)
3. England (778)
4. China (734)
5. Japan (648)
6. Germany (602)
7. Canada (593)
8. France (575)
9. India   (541)
10. Sweden (520)

The points were calculated based on a global expert panel rating, D+ journalists-volunteers rating, a global social media survey, and the number of positive news entries in 2012 in the D+ website. This multifaceted positive news publications, analysis and global survey feedback of 2012 generated some great reviews for the winners. The USA maintained strong sense of innovation throughout the year, such as the Nobel Prize wins to Mars Rover of NASA. It has shown some positive signs of economic recovery. The presidential election campaigns attracted positive attitude towards the USA, which also demonstrated the great and stable political system of the USA amid fierce contest between the President and his opponent.

Australia, despite the apparent political backlog, continued to maintain a strong economy compared to the other developed countries in 2012. The country was also praised for its contribution in medical science, efficient natural disaster management and for introducing tax on carbon emitters. It is the first country in the world to do this.
 

England has been in the news for positive reasons, thanks to the 2012 Olympic Games and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Insights for Scotland's independence also improved the English image in general. China found its position in the top 10, being considered as a major driving force in the world economy, despite its economy showing signs of slowing down.
 

Japan was hailed for their continuous progress in science, infrastructure and research despite the burden of natural disasters. Apart from these facts Japan was also praised for contribution in socio-economic development and humanitarian work.
 

Germany and France are leading the current European Union crisis and to some extent considered as positive due to their impact on the world economy. Canada's involvements in global leadership issues were seen as somewhat limited. Nevertheless, its people kept maintaining better lifestyle. Canada was also acknowledged for political stability and humanitarian work.
 

India's successful fight against polio stood out. Apart from that India has been creating positive image with their consistent economic growth despite alleged widespread corruptions. Sweden's winning of the Eurovision song contest title, as well as success in medical science and information technology helped the country to get into the list. People have shown great satisfaction in their lifestyle in Sweden.
 

Apart from the top 10 winners, there was also positive news elsewhere. Burma had a year of positive political changes and reforms. Despite Russia's negative media coverage it established itself as frontrunner of the space programs, which also includes collaborative programs with the old rival America. Brazil not only kept showing leadership in the Latin American region, but also led with environmental initiatives to create examples for the rest of the world.
 

Upon announcing the top 10 winners of the World’s Most Positive Countries for 2012, Dr. Arif Jubaer, founder of D+, stated “I feel that D+ is making a positive impact on people by reporting positive news. The initiative of World’s Most Positive Countries will encourage individuals and countries to take more positive actions for a positive future.”
 

For more information on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

World Most Positive Countries 2012

World’s Most Positive Countries initiative is back!

The 2012 event to reveal the list of top 10 World’s Most Positive Countries will recognize countries around the globe with most positive initiatives and actions. Following last year’s grand introduction of the list, this year it is back with more enthusiasm and excitement.
 

The list is generated based on a pre-defined Positivity Index. The Positivity Index quantifies positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world. According to the index, each country is assigned a score based on the followings:

1. External expert panel rating. These panel members do not work for D+ in any form and are selected based on their individual expertise from around the world. Each panel member will select ten countries. The top most country in each list will score 10 points and the last country in each list will score 1 point. Apart from that these panel lists will also work as benchmark to ensure that our social media fan rating is not biased.
2. Internal D+ volunteer-journalist panel rating. Like the external panel this panel members will also select ten countries individually. The top most country in each list will score 10 points and the last country in each list will score 1 point.
3. D+ social media fan rating. Each vote will carry 1 point. Anyone can vote with a valid email address. In case of multiple votes from same email address only the first vote will be retained.
4. The Country pages on D+ with most number of positive news from 2012 will score higher points. Each published news that took place in 2012 will carry 10 points.

Each country will score a total from each of the above categories which will then be added together to compute the final results. The country with the highest total points is considered the most positive country. Ten countries in all will be ranked - the most to the tenth most positive countries.

The list will be revealed on 1 November 2012 and the award ceremony will be held on 25 November 2012 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

 

Everyone can participate in the initiative and vote for their positive-country. The details can be found on D+ Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive or Click Here to participate.

 

Last year Australia topped the list of most positive countries. Other countries in the list were the United States of America, England, China, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, New Zealand and India.

 

For more information on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Daily Positive (D+) : Progress 2012

Good news all-around for D+. It experienced some great advancement in last six months.

At the halfway mark of 2012 D+ has experienced 100% increase in web traffic compared to entire last year. The social networks of D+ were liked and grown in thousands around the globe, growth that was faster than ever before. As part of annual development and feature integration D+ introduced features, such as, Current News section at the front page. The new section highlights the current positive news from around the world as it happens.

Thanks to our visitors, fans, volunteers and well-wishers. Your constant supports and encouragements have been the core strength for D+.

Finally, it is almost time for World Most Positive Countries 2012. For more visit Daily Positive (D+).

Daily Positive (D+) Carnival 2012 Came To An Enthusiastic End

The inaugural D+ Carnival Africa 2012 ended with passion, care and love. The month long carnival not only showcased Africa to the global audiences but also brought small groups in the remote parts of the world together. People got together and shared lunch, had coffee, attended presentations and in general talked about the positives of Africa.

D+ thanks everyone for taking part and making the D+ Carnival Africa 2012 a huge success. D+ was blown away with love and care. It inspired D+ to improve and continue to discover and share the positives and help bring the best out of everyone.

Here is the first glimpse of some pictures (a BBQ and a Tea Session) of D+ volunteers, supporters and well-wishers from around the globe who celebrated the D+ Carnival Africa 2012 in their own way.

 D+ thanks again all the participants for their care and love. For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/

This Month Is For Inaugural International African Carnival

A new Carnival is in the town during the month of March 2012. The inaugural International African Carnival is to celebrate the joys and delights of Africa. The aim of the Carnival 2012 is to indulge, celebrate and convey happiness and pleasure from the continent of Africa.

Daily Positive (D+), is the organizer of the International African Carnival 2012. Thousands of D+ readers, academics, researchers, students, fans and volunteers around the world are celebrating the month with various events as part of the Carnival. D+ conducting Presentations, Social media promotions, Focused news collections, Student volunteer works and Social gatherings around the globe as part of the Carnival.

The Carnival is the first of its kind in the world where everyone celebrates a randomly chosen culture in each corner of the world.  It intends to bring real harmony and hopes it will give back a sense of opportunity, friendship and positive cross cultural learning throughout the global community. Everyone can participate to the Carnival by organizing an event (Presentation, BBQ, Dinner or Social Gathering) to celebrate the thrill of Africa during the carnival month. D+ will send a free event pack to the organizers and will publish the news to the social media.

For more details on the Carnival visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Daily_Positive_Carnival

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! Daily Positive (D+) would like to take this opportunity to Thank You again for your support and interest in 2011. It has been a busy, productive and fun year for us all – with some memorable moments that involved you. We wish you great year ahead and look forward to see you in 2012 and let 2012 be a positive year for all of us.

For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/

Thank You from the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 Initiative

On behalf of Daily Positive (D+), we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their supports to the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative. It was a great success!

We look forward to see you at our future events and we welcome you to discover and share daily positives at Daily Positive (D+).

Here is a picture from the event. For more visit http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive

For more on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Let’s join and celebrate with D+ at the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 initiative presentation

Daily Positive (D+) invites you to join the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative presentation on 25 November 2011. A summary of the event is provided in the following:

What: World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative presentation ceremony
When: 25 November 2011, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Where: Lecture Theater 3, Level 2, ICT Building, The University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St., Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
Dress Code:  Formal / Smart Casual

If you want to join this event, kindly let us know by 18 November 2011 at info@dailypositive.org.

The event will consist of

• Welcome and Introductory Speech
• Founder Presentation
• Closing Speech and Refreshment

For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Australia topped the list of the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011

Australia is the most positive country in the world! Daily Positive (D+), a non-profit wiki-based project, has revealed today the list of World’s Most Positive Countries in 2011. The homeland of Kangaroos and Wallabies has topped the list, with the United States of America and England securing the second and third positions respectively.

The list of world’s 10 most positive countries 2011 is the first of its kind to recognize the positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world. Each country was assigned a score and ranked based on a number of factors, including ratings from external experts panel, global D+ volunteers/journalists,  D+ social media fan, and weighted rating based on the most number of positive entries and visitors to each country page on D+.

Top 10 World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 along with respective ranking points are as follows:

 Country Name                         Total Score

Australia                                           4053
United States of America               2463
England                                            2389
China                                                1515
Germany                                          1173
Japan                                                1141
France                                              1001
Canada                                              965
New Zealand                                    864
India                                                  852

Australia clinched the title of the world’s most positive country in the global poll of over two thousand participants from all over the world.  Approximately 25% of the voters quoted Australia as the top most positive country. In the global poll Australia was highly praised as one of the rare developed nation which avoided the recent global financial recession with minimal concern.

Apart from that Australian page on D+ was the most visited page in 2011. Also Australian, Japanese and the Americans were the top three nations who visited D+ the most in search of positivity.

The United States of America ranked 2nd in the global poll, however, the United States page on D+ had the most positive news entries than others.

England, France and Germany were seen as of the new global leaders, overtaking the United States in the face of the recent Arab uprising and European financial crisis.

Japan, China and India made it to the list for their respective positive achievements and actions. Japan was recognized for overcoming one of the worst nuclear fall-outs in history and still remained dignified, China made it - even being in the midst of all kinds of negative news related to human rights - because Chinese has shown the positive hardworking spirit to the world community and India was recognized for overcoming the stigma of being one of the poorest nations.

Finally, Canada and New Zealand were recognized as silent achievers.  

Apart from the winners there are many notable points that came out of the world’s most positive countries 2011 initiative, such as, Libyan revolution was considered as positive amidst concern about the future, Brazil’s determination to come out of the shell of third world countries was considered commendable and Zambia was hailed for undertaking successful election to ensure the smooth transition of power from the incumbent to a candidate from opposition camp.

For more information on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Vote for World's Most Positive Countries

Daily Positive (D+) invites you to have your say in selecting 10 Most Positive Countries in the world –an initiative from Daily Positive (D+).

Vote for your favorite countries which you believe had most positive achievements and initiatives in 2011 and help D+ reveal the 10 Most Positive Countries in the World.

• Join http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive
• List names of 10 countries.
• Send the list to info@dailypositive.org with optional comments on your list.
• Mention your name or Facebook ID that you used to be our valuable fan.

For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Which will be the most positive country of the world?

DailyPositive (D+) launched the 2011 Most Positive Countries initiative on 1 September 2011. A list of 10 most positive countries with highest positivity index will be revealed on 1 November 2011 and an award ceremony will be held on 25 November 2011.

The D+’s Positivity Index quantifies positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world. Each country will be assigned a score based on the following factors:

• External expert panel rating.
• Internal D+ volunteer-journalist panel rating.
• D+ social media fan rating.
• Higher rating for most visited country pages on D+.
• Higher rating for most visitors (from each country) on D+ in search of positivity.
• Country page with most number of positive news where current news weighted higher than historical news.
• Higher rating for equal distribution of positive news throughout the year.

You can have your say by

• Simply visit D+.
• Share positive news about your favorite countries on D+ or at info@dailypositive.org.
• Stay tuned for the upcoming poll on Facebook where you can vote for your favorite countries.

For more on the initiative visit Most Positive Countries.

Let’s Make The First Positive Step

While meeting people from all around the globe I found each individual is full of talent and capacity. However, lack of positive thinking and confidence stop most of them from achieving their goals. Also it is harder to make them think global and assure them that they are equally important as any other individuals in the world.

This is an important issue and needed to be addressed. Thus Daily Positive (D+) was formed. Daily Positive or D+ is a wiki project to accumulate, store and publish positive news and information from all the countries of the world. D+ collects news for each of the 365 days of the year and spreads notable, extraordinary and uplifting information from each culture.

We believe D+ will help provide everyone that confidence required to achieve their goals by publishing positive news from each corner of the world. The aim of the project is to facilitate positive energy among world communities and build mutual friendship and awareness.

D+ is also synonymous with different blood groups, such as, A+ and B+. Blood is the essential substance of life as is positivity. D+ aims to ensure the circulation of positivity in the world community at a time when it's most needed.

Let’s then discover and share positivity on Daily Positive (D+).

One Knowledge, One Work for World Communities

I started this blog to post entries related to my dream of One Knowledge, One Work project. For last few years I had the privileges to work closely with people from different background, in particular, I worked with local groups in my native land Bangladesh to create jobs for young people. These experiences provided me the tangible certainty to expand the One Knowledge, One Work project worldwide.

In the process I learned lots of lessons and gained valuable experiences. I observed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be a great tool to ensure a necessary “knowledge” for each person in the world which I believe can lead to ensure a “work” for everyone. It is possible, provided we are able to reach the global population with the help of ICT.

This will also allow the ICT-based businesses to grow their horizon beyond one’s imagination. As of this writing Facebook is running towards maturity with more than 500 million active users whereas the total population of the world is 6.92 billion. Even though, only Facebook does not represent total Internet users but it indicates significant amount of people are still outside the scope of ICT. I believe success for ICT based businesses, in future, relies on the ability to reach more and more people all around the globe.

I also learned few other things. I am looking forward to share them with you in my future posts.

SOVoIP: Technology to Reach to These Kids Before the Vultures Reach Them

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to ease the communication of different automated systems. Thus, Service Oriented VoIP (SOVoIP) can ensure better access to different systems to the users with their finger tips. Such an extendible behavior can, not only bring technical benefits but also social benefits to the users.

There are places in the world where lack of knowledge kills people, as shown in the picture. People from these regions do not have knowledge such as boiling water can save them from the diseases caused by unpurified water. Lack of information exchange and knowledge transfer causes such catastrophic end.

In such scenario, SOVoIP promises better information exchange and knowledge transfer with the help of easy technical integration processes between different systems. Besides the specific scenario described here, such extendible feature will help systems to be more mature with available information from different sources.

As we have seen the rise of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) concept, we can certainly look forward to SOVoIP with similar expectation. Moreover, SOVoIP will be much cheaper way to disseminate knowledge and will have broader impact on the society. Because, the benefits of SOVoIP, will reach to the people with cheaper telephony devices. Finally, SOVoIP will give us a way to reach to the kids in the picture before the vultures reach them.

SOVoIP's Feasibility

Feasibility study of SOVoIP ascertains the likelihood of its success. Current technological advancement and available standalone voice solutions have rendered the current systems trivial. Expanding businesses with extra workload confronting customers complains about the speed and quality of work businesses provide. In addition to that competitors are always looking for opportunities to grab big market share. Recent Yahoo and MSN merge is such a consequence. On the contrary SOVoIP brings all the platforms, protocols and devices into a single stage. SOVoIP’s feasibility attribute can be seen as:

· Unified model such as SOVoIP brings speed and efficiency in the business process. As people from different levels of management can access the system from anywhere, with whatever communication medium they have. That influences the customer satisfaction and ensures economical feasibility of the infrastructure.

· Unlike SIP or any other VoIP architecture SOVoIP does not require any network configuration in the client end. Only the providers need to maintain the network. Moreover its firewall friendly behavior brings simplicity to the system. Furthermore, HTTP is the most adopted protocol on the Internet. Thus universality of SOAP combined with HTTP, not only ensures interoperability between protocols but also make these protocols more open to the Internet. In addition to that QoS and security measurement ensure technical feasibility of the architecture. Finally, SOVoIP is an application layer solution. Thus adoption to future IPV6 network will not cause any problem.

· SOVoIP’s feasibility attribute, time, is perfect. SOA is maturing day by day. On the other hand SOVoIP does not require any especial hardware or software. Thus its time-to-market is predicted to beat the competition.

· Low client resource consumption and ability to cope up with changes in the architecture without client upgrade pledge extendibility and scalability. Thus organizational feasibility ensured.

SOVoIP: A New VoIP Architecture

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one of the most prominent communications technologies today. Consumers are already taking advantage of this cost effective solution for telephony over the Internet. The introduction of VoIP has resulted in a number of VoIP specific protocols that are not interoperable. Thus the next logical step is to make these and other existing protocols on the Internet talk to each other to bring about true convergence between voice and data networks. Naturally middleware that connects different software, platforms and protocols comes into the picture. Thus, in the research lab of The University of Melbourne, Australia, we have introduced a service oriented architecture for VoIP, Service Oriented VoIP (SOVoIP), which ensures protocol convergence while addressing many critical issues related to VoIP such as: Quality of Service (QoS), Enhanced 911 (E911), Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), NAT and firewall traversal. Comparative results endorse SOVoIP over the existing VoIP architectures.

We are going to present our first research paper in the 16th International World Wide Web Conference. You can have a look at our paper for more here.

Dave Greenfield, editor of VoIP Line and Network Computing on 26th of April, 2007 in his editor's note wrote about SOVoIP:

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Is There VoIP After SIP?

A new paper being presented at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference next month will be the first presentation on a fully blown out Web service-based telephony architecture or what I've been calling a Service Oriented Telephony Architecture (SOTA).

We've talked about SOTA as the next wave in VoIP. The combination of VoIP with Web service portability and component reuse make SOTA a compelling alternative to current VoIP approaches. Most SOTAs, such as those from Avaya or BlueNote, use some SIP process or server and don't reference any sort of standardized architecture.

This paper gets rid of the SIP infrastructure completely. It relies on SOAP to transport the telephony signaling and RTP to still carry the VoIP content. This means that the architecture should avoid the SIP's difficulties around NAT traversal not to mention its complexity.

Sure, the paper has a long way to go before its authors -- Mohammed Jubaer Arif, Shanika Karunasekera, and Santosh Kulkarni -- can present it to a standard's body. It's got an even longer way after that before it has the sophistication and breadth of SIP. But if you want a picture of where VoIP is headed take a gander at this document.

- Dave Greenfield
Editor, VoIP Line
Editor, Network Computing

Middleware is in Disarray

Middleware conference 2006, took place in Melbourne, Australia. The University of Melbourne was the organizer and my supervisor Dr. Shanika Karunasekera was general chair to the conference. Thus I had a chance to look at the current status of middleware from a close distance as a local organizer.

What is Middleware?
Middleware is a software enabling technology that connects two or more applications so that they can communicate each other. Middleware hides not only the distribution but also the complexities lie in different hardware and software level. It provides uniformity in messaging and high level interfaces to the application developers so that application can be easily composed and made interoperate. Web Services, CORBA, RMI, DCOM etc. are various kind of middleware.

Middleware are here to fulfill the above mentioned goals. However if we quote from the proceeding of the conference, it says:

“Middleware is one of those topics in computer science for which it appears difficult to reach consensus on its exact meaning”

In other words, my personal observation is that middleware community yet to come out with a proper definition for middleware. That certainly instigated disarray in the middleware world. To add to this plight, vendors those implement the middleware and the standardization bodies of these middleware are the prime source of disarray. Race in order to grab the market share among the vendors have been influencing the standardization processes. As a result same middleware comes out with different standards and implementations. Thus middleware is losing its primary goal of universality. If we look closely to CORBA’s rise and fall we will realize the reality. That reality has been revealed here by Michi Henning, who was a core part of CORBA.

Right now web services are flying high. However, this report from Network Computing describes web services are also following the same path as CORBA did with their standardization. Will web services embrace the same fate as CORBA? That’s a question to be answered. Moreover, now it seems more interesting to talk about these different standards rather than CORBA vs. Web Services.

Middleware is here with noble goals. It should exist. Hope it will march forward towards its goals smoothly. But, who is going to help it?