Web Services, SOA, Open Source Converge.(Service oriented architecture)

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NEW YORK--What happens when you mix Web services, service-oriented architecture and open source?

Responding to that question was the task of a panel of heavy hitters at the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street conference on Feb. 27.

Hiram Chirino, co-founder and director of architecture at LogicBlaze Inc., of Marina del Ray, Calif., said the convergence of Web services, SOA and open source is exactly what his company is all about.

In fact, LogicBlaze is in the process of building out a new suite offering of SOA infrastructure software that the company will deliver within a couple of months.

"We're going to move out a stack of our software and recommend that customers use that" for SOA deployments, Chirino said.

And noting the IT expression of having "one throat to choke" over responsibility systems, he said: "We'll have one throat to choke, and it will all be based on Apache-licensed software."

Meanwhile, "I think the jury's still out,"...

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