Packt is pleased to announce a new book “SOA Approach to Integration” which shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.

Every year since 2004 has been touted as the year of the Linux desktop. That year where Linux of some flavor makes huge inroads into the home and work desktop scene. Every year these predictions have fallen short. Now 2008 being the year of the Linux desktop stories are already making the rounds.

The Communications Research Center Canada (CRC) has used Linux to demonstrate a tiny software-defined radio (SDR) claimed to comply with the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). The demo aims to prove SCA's applicability not only in military radios, but also in vehicles, robots, and small consumer devices, according to CRC.

Canonical today released a new software development collaboration service for Ubuntu Linux developers.

Packt is pleased to announce details of a new book for ASP.NET developers, which will help them to understand how Microsoft AJAX will impact on the way they develop web applications and help them to make the transition to better, more responsive applications as easily as possible.

This opinion piece (PDF) in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, argues that since mathematicians increasingly rely on software in generating their results, we should be increasingly concerned about the use of proprietary math software, since (a) not everyone has access to that software and (b) the code used by that software is usually closed-source, so the algorithms used can’t general

I spent October 25 and 26 in Toronto attending the FSOSS 2007 conference put on by Seneca College.