Best of this Week Summary 22 Oct - 28 Oct 2007

• Nice article (but quite high-level) on how HP is transforming its IT (hardware and software) into a Servce Oriented Architecture using governance, Struts, SOAP, WSRP4J (portlets) and the Spring Portlet MVC. They are reducing the number of datacenters from 85 to 6, and each application that wants to be released gets a review whether it complies to the published standards for those datacenters.
  


• Eoin Woods, one of the IASA Fellows has written this article on the top ten software architecture mistakes. Most are quite obvious, but getting reminded of them can't do any harm! If you're in a hurry, here's short summary.
  


• Ten Java Open Source caching solutions shortly described. Different types of caching mechanism are shown: distributed, local, in-memory. Hmm, who was first...