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Article: FUD muddies platform wars.(fear, uncertainty and doubt)
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- Network World
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- February 28, 2005
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Byline: James Kobielus
Has anybody noticed that the application platform market is melting down? Service-oriented architecture principles are dissolving the underpinnings of yesterday's computing environments, making concepts such as "platform," "application" and "language" irrelevant in the world of Web services.
But SOA and Web services are just one part of the platform-meltdown equation. The platform vendors are also flailing about, not able to achieve the momentum to place their environment - be it Windows, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), or Linux/Apache/MySQL/PPP (LAMP) - head and shoulders above the rest. All these platforms are ...