Anne Thomas Manes

Vice President and Research Director

Emphases: XML, java, SOA, application servers, application security, web services

Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems’s software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the “Power 100 IT Leaders,” by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide,” published by Addison-Wesley, 2003 and participated in Web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

About Burton Group

Burton Group -- www.burtongroup.com -- is the only enterprise IT research and advisory services firm focused exclusively on infrastructure technologies. Burton Group's unbiased, in-depth, technical research and advice helps IT technologists and architects make smart enterprise architecture decisions in increasingly complex environments.

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