Jason Levitt is a programmer, consultant, book author and web jockey. He is is a former senior technology editor for InformationWEEK. Currently, Levitt is completing an upcoming book on web services for O'Reilly and Associates.
With all of the advances in computer and wireless technology over the past 20 years, youd think that landline telephone systems—sometimes referred to as the “Plain Old Telephone System” (POTS)—would have vanished by now. But despite the uptake in cell phone users, the vast majority of homes and businesses depend on copper wire for telephone […]
It seems inevitable that when you put Microsoft, IBM and Sun (and HP and TIBCO and BEA, etc.) in the same room over and over again, youll end up with some porky specifications. Sure enough, the Simple Object Access Protocol (along with its numerous related appendages) has been getting bigger and more confusing every year. […]