Dana Blakenhorn blasts Sun’s SOA initiative as proof that the company “doesn’t get open source.” The problem he has is not the licensing of the code itself, but rather the fact that everything in Sun’s SOA stack is from, well, Sun. Open source stacks are often pieced together from various vendors and projects (LAMP, anyone?). But I guess the question here is whether that’s actually a virtue in and of itself. Nobody’s stopping you form recombining elements of Sun’s SOA stack with other open source packages; but is it really necessary for Sun to do it? Open SourceSoftware Development