 I'm Terrence Blevins, and I am currently retired, but I do hold the title of fellow of the open group, of which I am very, very happy about. About 18 years, I started with the open group about 1996, so it's been about 18 wonderful years. Oh boy, chosen profession is very difficult, it's been a journey. I started out in software development, went into management of software development projects, went into architecture, and then various managerial roles. But at the root of everything, of all the things that I did throughout my career, I would say I did them in an architecturally sound fashion. Initially, the involvement with the open group came when I was with the NCR Corporation. And we were doing architecture, but I wanted to see the architecture evolve into a real discipline and profession. So we started to engage with the open group to learn about what others were doing with architecture and to provide the practical architecting experiences that we had to evolve the TODAF standard. So it's been very, very satisfying for me from a value perspective. I think the open group has done a great deal in the industry to protect the integrity of things like the UNIX products out there. I believe that what it has done with the architecture has helped the discipline and the profession of architecture evolve. I mean, there's thousands and thousands of architects out there now that can speak the same language, understand the same development method, and have good conversations about sharing experiences. Without the standard, without the open group, they'd just be silos of architects. Boundaryless Information Flow is really about being able to exploit new data and get new data where it has to be to be of use for some challenge, problem, some opportunity. So Boundaryless Information Flow, it's really about taking away the restrictions that are out there, many of which are completely political, but taking away the restrictions out there and allowing the information to get where it needs to be to be of value beyond the organization but value to the enterprise. Well, I believe that there are benefits from a customer side as well as a provider side. From a provider side, if you participate and you help the evolution of a standard move forward, it helps you with mergers and acquisitions, it helps you with partnerships, it helps you actually sell to customers. When I was in the provider part of the value chain, it took extra resources to actually sell something that was proprietary. You have to explain why it's proprietary. When you're supporting open standards, you don't have to do that. Oh, and that partnership chain today is very, very important. 20 years ago it was important, but less important, but today it's even more important. So the provider value chain really is enabled by open standards. From a customer perspective, we just cannot allow our information to be held hostage by proprietary standards, whether they're interchange standards or storage standards or whatever. We have to have that information flow so we can take advantage of it. Making sure that we can go to a forum and have the candid discussions with the supplier community about our requirements for that affords us that opportunity to tell the vendor community how important it is to implement those standards, which of course makes it easier for the supplier community to say, well, okay, there's a reason out there in the customer side to do so. Well, I sort of play golf and I play the ukulele. And I enjoy traveling and cruising with my wife, especially in Star Trek. Well, I have a lot of books open, and I don't even remember their titles, but some of the books that I have open at this point in time are books about effective and efficient CTOs. I think that that's a critical area of interest to me because enterprise architectures and enterprise architects need to be engaging with the C level. And a natural place is with the CTO to begin the conversation and then go through that to other parts of the C level, the financial and the human resources, etc. So I have a number of those open and I have a lot of books on how to play the ukulele open and a few science fiction books open as well. Well, I really have a passion. As some know, I have retired from my most recent employer and I have a great passion right now to help become part of the solution in the healthcare area. And so I'd love to do something with boundless healthcare information flow. Being pleasantly surprised with being named a fellow of the open group means almost everything to me. Of course it's underneath that marriage thing, but it certainly makes me feel that everything in the last 18 years has been productive for the community and appreciated, so it means an awful lot. And as I mentioned, I have aspired to be a fellow somewhere and there's no better place to be a fellow of than an organization such as the open group that strives to have real worldwide impact. Thank you to the open group, thank you to all of the people with the open group which is that combination of open group staff, open group partners and all of the open group members. Everything that has been done and accomplished has been done because these three communities are working together and I'm very happy to have been a part of that for 18 years. I love the O!