"Enterprises that implement Contract First Design and believe that Platforms are Contract Driven are much less dependent on specific languages or language specific libraries."

"The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in a California bankruptcy case has some big Silicon Valley companies on edge. Among them are Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Attorneys for those and more than a dozen other companies held a powwow this week to discuss the patent sale and the danger of becoming targets of infringement suits by whomever acquires them."

"The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics says that the act of observing changes the outcome. So it is with the extended enterprise - the act of supporting business relationships with networked systems changes those relationships."

"After months of tweaking, Grand Central Communications has finished the latest version of its Business Services Network, a system that shuttles business integration services over the Web to help clients manage and bundle applications."

"Does anyone still believe that web services will be published and consumed indiscriminately on the open Internet? I keep on seeing references to that early vision as if it's still alive, but surely everyone realizes by now it was just a geek pipedream, the idea that your servers would just go out on the Internet and 'discover' services listed by all-comers in registries conforming to the pompously-named "Universal Description Discovery and Integration protocol" (ie UDDI)."