Two topics that are receiving a great deal of attention lately are service-oriented architectures and open source software, and the featured articles this week provide interesting discussions on both.
In Open Source and the Profit Motive, Pete Loshin identifies several possible business models relating to open source software.
In the second article, Service-Oriented Architecture, I discuss the architectural requirements for data warehousing and explain my view of service-oriented architectures
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Open Source and the Profit Motive
by Pete Loshin
It is worth taking a look at the alternative business models that are possible with open source software.
Service-Oriented Architecture
by Bill Inmon
Data warehousing requires an architecture that accounts for all information needs, not just the mere access of data.
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