Largest news today in the ol’ world of Sun is the release of Java CAPS 6, Sun’s SOA offering. It’s all open source, based on Open ESB, which is Sun’s in-house open source implementation of JSR 208 (and hopefully not subject to the same drama as JSR 277). Sun’s Master Data Management offering — an area the company hasn’t done much with before — integrates with CAPS, but you have to pay extra for it. (The other bits can be put together at no charge, though you obviously don’t get Sun support that way.) So who’ll want Java CAPS? Analyst Neil Ward-Dutton thinks that open source doesn’t necessarily appeal to big enterprises, but that the small organizations that might like the open source angle won’t have need for such a mighty offering. He things developing markets could snap it up, though. Open SourceSoftware Development