On the last day of BEA World, bdg gave Robert Gill a brand new 4Gb iPod nano (in black of course). Accepting the iPod on his behalf is Robert's coworker Ed Ulicny.

From left to right, that's Rich Weinhold, Andrew Morris, Chris Bucchere, Jennifer Dunleavey and Andrew Bays. Not present: Howie Bagley, Eric Bucchere and Joe Garlington.

Now the team is off to have a fabulous dinner at Bix.

Well, 20 actually. I just gave my talk on taglibs to a nice crowd of about 100 people. It was very well received!

Alfred Chuang (the "A" in BEA) said that 20% of BEA's business comes from AquaLogic. He parlayed this into a nice talk about the realization of SOA. They demo'd Hiper and some other stuff that showed SOA in action using ALI and ALIP/ALBPM along with some very slick Excel integration. This really clarified how important AquaLogic is to BEA's overall strategy.