Loosely Coupled has an interesting story today about a meeting organised by J.P. Rangaswami, the CIO of Dresdner Kleinwork Wasserstein, in London last week.

Rangaswami's over-riding theme is the need to settle on a vendor-neutral, generic architecture for their companies and their applications.... I couldn't agree more.... I'm looking forward to hearing more about this event. We vendors can make a lot of noise in the market place - an initiative such as this... where the consumers of our technologies unite into one voice... is a rare and valuable thing.