Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet talked today about how the open source ecosystem is a lot like the Pull-a-Part yards in the South and Midwest (see http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/). A Pull-a-Part is an auto junk yard that inventories its parts for easy identification and retrieval. I remember my first experience at a junk yard. My dad dragged me along in the hunt for a replacement radio for o

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I see a growing trend to draw lessons on how to develop services from the basic design of the internet itself. The internet maximizes scalability and resilience into a platform proven as an engine for innovation. Doesn't it make sense to model SOA implementation on these same core principles? Ganesh Prasad states it simply (

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I just read Matt Asay's blog post about OSS Adoption, as viewed by Gartner ("Gartner underhypes open source" - http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9828364-16.html?tag=head ). Since I'm attending Gartner's Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit in Las Vegas, NV this week,

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