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Skype offers free calling
Skype just launched a FREE calling for its US users to call within US & Canada. Yes, you heard me right, FREE. Local landline calls (i think) within the US are generally free, adding mobile within that takes it to another dimension !

Got a WIFI / 3G enabled PDA with skype (though very very few such devices are actually available and sold) and you have an almost nill telephone bill for local calling.

Though skype will never be able to pull that off in India & some other countries which desperately need these kind of facilities, it will be another telecom revolution if such a facility is indeed available. Imagine calling your friends anywhere across the world for RS 1 for 3 minutes (Rs 20 is the standard browsing charge for a high quality broadband at a net centre) from India !..

Way back in 2001 end, when I interacted with Marc Fleury, the dynamic Founder of JBoss, I was having a fair idea about the destiny of JBoss.

A seven plus years journey for JBoss has not been a smooth ride in the early days of skepticism surrounding Java Open Source and J2EE certification issues.

Finally after much speculation about Oracle's possible new item in its long shopping list, JBoss made RedHat its new container!

Here is how JBoss would look like now on http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/jboss.html

SOA is a blueprint or a framework of applications within an enterprise.

SOA mainly brings about business agility within the enterprise and maps IT agility to business agility. SOA is built on “business services” and thus the name Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SOA is useful for enterprises who typically find that IT is not flexible and agile enough with business demands. Generally, investment is need whenever there is a change in the business process happening; Enterprises also typically find that IT is not aligned well with business processes

SOA gives the answers to these problems. An SOA implementation will provide