ALEX NGHIEM is President of Blue Samba Solutions, LLC, an Atlanta, GA-based firm specializing in lowering IT integration costs through the use of Web Services technologies. He previously founded a middleware and application server development firm, Global Objects, and sold it to a leading CRM solutions firm. As founder of Global Objects, Inc., Nghiem was a leader in the rapid delivery of e-business solutions to Fortune 500 clients such as BellSouth and Bank of America.