Last week, Actional Corporation (Actional) announced a new capability — called watchdogs — for its Web services management platform. Watchdogs will be added to the Looking Glass centralized management console at no additional charge, starting with .NET now, and soon to be released for J2EE.Watchdogs are a technology that allow companies to test Web services and to make sure they are functioning correctly. While they don't qualify as a full-fledged testing solution, they do allow...

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An article on Pamela Jones, the founder of the blog-turned-Web site Groklaw (a site devoted to analyzing the legal aspects of the various SCO-related lawsuits involving vendors IBM and Red Hat and, now, user companies AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler), drove home the point that the foes of open source software (OSS) and the related GPL (anti-OSS/GPL for short) are fighting a battle that they can't win.To understand why OSS won't be defeated, let's first look at...

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