* Automating management processes
* When perception becomes reality
* A look at applications management in the past year
* Appliances move up the stack
* IBM, LogicLibrary make announcements in the SOA world
* Could SOA rejuvenate your career?
* What is federation anyway?
* How many CMDBs does it take to manage an SOA?
* Mainframes get the SOA treatment
* The farther we progress down the SOA path, the more relevant the CMDB becomes
