http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/story/wstWeek/WST20020307S0008

This article highlights the trends that will make xml and webservice tools key when adding additional functionality to solutions, as is mentioned in the article interoperability is the core and being able to apply solutions that can achieve this will be in great demand - i.e. xml and webservice tools that are scalable and can be rapidly deployed - we have an outsource strategy as well as implementing in-house from this by hosting these services ourselves at a later date and indeed the code would be highly reusable as we are on installation merely configuring security in order for the application to run as it is designed to run on open standards i.e. uddi, wsdl, xml etc..

Should not stay up so late either, thank god I'm off to Paris tomorrow.

Would be a good idea to start keeping a mind about building basic crm/client project management and a discussion/forum thread tool accessed via our dev site - again it would show capability in building private collaboration solutions for a business that were effective easy to support.