Made it back to the South (Charlotte) for Christmas,  and I have to admit I can’t wait for Christmas morning to come around.   Been a really busy November and December with a lot of new stuff going on,  more of which I can talk about in January I’m sure. In the meantime I have started working more with Web 2.0 and Social Networking technologies and I’ll be blogging more about those in the new year.  

I was recently talking about open source and how some of the forces are changing in the space,  2007 was a year of change for that market and while the collaboration aspects continue to grow and technologies for development collaboration continue to mature – is it also a time to start looking at 2008 and some of the trends that we will see emerging.  Having come from the Enterprise Software market I think that we’ll see some of the SOA hype start to fade and the disconnects between a Web 2.0 approach and the SOA architecture will probably become more pronounced (hopefully the vendor dependencies which have pushed people into a SOA frenzy will start to change).  With all my time in Asia over the past year it is interesting to see that Open Source is now starting to grow there – some would say in a similar way to the US a few years ago,  though I think that it will be a different adoption structure there – with many of the experiences and lessons already starting to be examined more closely. 

As I settle in for Christmas in South – on a sunny Christmas Eve – I am going to start working on blog entries for the year so that it isn’t such a quiet year :)