SOA / Web Services
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IBM launches SOA Business Catalog
“IBM Corp has announced what it calls the IBM SOA Business Catalog, a collection of reusable IT services based on its own and its partners’ software.”
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PRESS RELEASE: IBM’s New SOA Business Catalog Offers Reusable IT Assets to Accelerate SOA Adoption
“At the IBM SOA Executive Summit here attended by hundreds of clients, IBM announced the availability of a comprehensive resource to make it easier to find reusable IT services based on IBM and IBM Business Partner software.”
Open Source
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Application Development Trends – Ubuntu ready for big biz
“The latest version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro, launched on June 1, was designed specifically with large organizations in mind, says the open-source project’s founder.”
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Open source DRM is the elephant in the room – Computer Business Review
Not quite fully open – see discusion of commercial licenses.
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HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1)
Take as opinion and input. Most people who write such things tend to have a license preference and that comes out more or less subtly.
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IBM to Open Source More WSDM Code
“IBM is contributing more code to the open-source community based on the Web services distributed management (WSDM) standard, the vendor said Wednesday.”
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Open source licensing and the persistence of evil | Matt Asay | InfoWorld
Interesting RMS photo.
DRM
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PC Pro: News: DRM differences could cost billions of dollars
“Entertainment companies risk losing hundreds of billions of dollars of potential income and the future of dozens of promising digital markets are at risk unless they can resolve differences over DRM, according to research firm iSuppli.”
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Scandinavian agencies extend Apple reply deadline | Reuters.com
“Consumer-rights protection agencies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have given Apple Computer (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) until Aug. 1 to respond to their claim that the U.S. firm’s iTunes service breaches Scandinavian consumer laws.”
Guitar
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YouTube – DIY. Multiple Guitar Stand
video of how to make a pvc guitar stand
