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The project board discussed the outcomes of the successful project review held July 2008 and begin the planning for the next review to be held in September 2009.
The Project Board was followed by a plenary session of the project partners. The plenary session reviewed technical achievements delivered so far and assessed our rapid progress in moving beyond the state of the art in the field of Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). In particular progress in self optimisation, redundancy and self healing where reviewed along side the teams approach to quality of service and security considerations. Plans where finalised to deploy the new MOM technologies in a range of scenarios covering Financial Markets, Distributed Linked Exchanges, and Roads Management to test the effectiveness of the new technologies in real life business critical situations.
Following the Project Board meeting a plenary session of the FAST Implementers Group was held. The aim of of this session was to introduce new potential implementers to the benefits of the FAST application. In addition to the established members of the group representatives of a number of Hungarian ministries, including the Hungarian Prime Ministers Office and the Ministry of Health, attended together with a representative of EasyConnects from the UK. Following the presentations a number of exciting opportunities to deploy the FAST technologies where identified in both Hungary and the UK. 
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