Eventually we’ll stop talking about SOA and go back to talking about Architecture. When we stop talking about SOA it will finally become a reality (who talks about 3-tier architectures anymore?). Thanks to Harry for this one! SOAs are like snowflakes...

Web Services Pipeline is conducting an informal poll on BPEL adoption, the results of which are a bit disturbing (50% asked “what is BPEL ?”). One wonders what percentage of that 50% crowd consists of developers, managers and marketers. How are you planning...

The XML Team here at Microsoft just launched their group blog . Subscribe now and avoid the holiday rush!

Steve Vinoski (chief engineer of Iona) has an article on Web Services Standardization in the December 2004 edition of IEEE Computing . The article is another discussion about the apparent complexity of the advanced web services specifications . While...

Its official: Oracle is acquiring PeopleSoft for 10.3 billion . Update: Get your potential collectors item while supplies last!

First off, this article is not designed to bash anyone, especially WPC. I was motivated to post this entry to identify what could be the start of a disturbing trend - the concept of "open source" XML schemas (complete with an open source license). Licensing...

Péter Jacsó has posted a very detailed review of Google Scholar . I was excited about the prospects of Google Scholar, especially given some of the rumors I've heard about Cite Seer going away someday. Google Scholar is still labelled a Beta - lets hope...