Selling SOA to the Business

A really interesting article discussing about marketing aspects of SOA.
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/selling-soa

WS-Federation, wazzat?

Skimming through many resources available to understand WS-Federation, I found that following resources would be useful.
1. WSFED: Proposed Charter jump
2. Understanding WS-Federation jump
3. WS-Federation overview jump

Don't forget to read the enterprise scenario available under #2.

WSF/PHP follows C.

Soon after the release of WSF/C 1.0, WSO2 team has released WSF/PHP 1.0, which is a PHP extension for those who need to provide/consume web services in PHP. This release includes the support for SOAP 1.0 and SOAP 1.1. Also it adds WS-Security, WS-Addressing, WS-Reliable Messaging, SOAP MTOM support. See the complete feature list here.
A good place to start WSF/PHP is the user manual. You can download and try WSF/PHP free under Apache License, Version 2.0.