Here's an interesting story! January 30, 2008 (Computerworld) An IBM zSeries mainframe that Palm Beach Community College bought for about a half-million dollars in 2005 was sold this month on eBay for $40,000. Mainframes and other IT systems...

Hernan Garcia made an interesting comment on my post of yesterday: For REST, there is an alternative to the WSDL in SOAP and it is WADL . Good point Mr Garcia - The adoption and practical utility of WADL is worth watching. The question for me becomes...

Am I the first to notice this? Yahoo is a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation . If Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo goes through , Microsoft will assume that role. Interesting! I wonder if that is the key reason Steve Ballmer...

More CodePlex stuff. I have posted MsmqJava, an open source MSMQ Library for Java, on CodePlex. Find it at http://www.codeplex.com/MsmqJava . This thing allows any Java application running on Windows to connect to MSMQ, to enqueue and dequeue...

I have updated DotNetZip, the open source Zip Library for .NET, to v1.3. [Update, 3 January 2009: DotNetZip is now at v1.7 . It includes Unicode, ZIP64, and runs on the Compact Framework. ] Find it at http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip . Some...

Catching up with some reading, I was looking through the SDTimes issue from January 1st (yes, I know, it is now February. Cut me some slack!). In it, Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WS02, has a guest editorial column about your favorite subject and mine:...