Thursday, September 21, 2006 
Hewlett-Packard is <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2017377,00.asp?kc=EWWSUEMNL092006EOAD">opening up three more competency centers</A> around the world to help customers looking to implement service-oriented architectures. The SOA centers--in Bangalore, India, Singapore, and Cupertino, CA--are part of a larger $500 million investment HP is making in the technology, which calls for integrating services to create service-enabled applications tied together for specific business purposes.
