Challenging Web Services Buying Decisions
Michael S. Mimoso writes "A Forrester Research report points out that major vendors are encroaching on the Web services market currently dominated by smaller specialty vendors. That could make for some trying times in the near future for enterprises exploring Web services and SOA."
There's also apparently a large amound of programmers with nothing better to do with their time than publish some open source apps, which take much more out of small shops. Big shops like IBM capitalize on free labor, small shops are out of business.