The Register: Sun to join WS-I there had been a rist between MS, IBM and the others who set up the WS-I excluding Sun, but this may now be resolved as Sun joined this week, and will have a seat on the board. Part of the rumours of discord were linked to suggestions that IBM might charge royaly fees for use of some concepts in Web Services in particular ebXML (actually sponsored by Sun and the UN). The WS-I fast track the slower W3C processes for some standards relating to Web Services.
Web Services Architect portal site for Web Services news.
Earthweb Networking and Communications: Techniques: Web Services: A Fit for EAI
eAI Journal a journal dedicated to Enterprise Applications Integration.
eaiQ: Independent resource for enterprise application integration (eai) and infrastructure Enterprise Application Integration portal
Internet Search Engine Comparison Search site comparison matrix: Google, AltaVista, AllThewWeb
End-to-End Arugments in System Design (Saltzer, Reed, Clark) MIT
Reliable Web services Jon Udell, InfoWorld Test Center
Open Source Development Lab a project to develop a telecommunications applications platform based on Linux.
Introduction to carrier grade Linux Applied-Computing.net article on an interesting project to build a platform based on Linux for telecommunications applications development and deployment.