Mr. Asim Usman, FiveRivers Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Lahore.

Grid computing couples to the core of virtualization which empowers simple PC to be used as an array of virtual PCs and allows different computing resources to be used without the knowledge of where those resources are located, what the underlying technologies hardware or operating system are. Open source community is head to head with its XEN VMM/Hypervisor to take on the existing leaders VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V. Hypervisor with its paravirtualization voids operating system concepts. But all this brings along a new set of challenges. What are these challenges? How can IT managers overcome these challenges? If you grasp the idea, you will be defining the future.

M. Omer Javaid (Netsol Technologies), Shahid M. Awan. KICS-UET. Lahore.

By consolidating and reusing common services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) offer many benefits to organizations. Today's enterprise is busy architecting for business solution agility and the alignment of key assets around the emerging Service Oriented Architecture umbrella. This Introduction to SOA will guide those pursuing SOA towards proven best practices to increase the likelihood of garnering the benefits of an SOA, faster and easier. Concept of SOA, its benefits, SOA with Web Services, choosing a platform to implement SOA and other related topics will be discussed in this workshop.

Asif Khalil\Iram Naseer, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available. Joomla can be used for simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Joomla can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations etc. The workshop overviews dynamic perspective of content management for Joomla and outlines the related available technology. Basic guidelines to improve the development efforts for web application using Joomla via a simple, browser-based interface shall be covered.