First of all, sorry for the lack of blogging this week. It's been a rare week, and a short one with the holiday. I will be back to my old blogging self tomorrow, and will post a new Podcast on Monday night, as per normal. Second, as many of you already know, my firm, the Linthicum Group, LLC, was acquired by ZapThink this week. I'm now a managing partner at Zap, working with the current ZapThinkers…Jason and Ron First of all, sorry for the lack of blogging this week. It’s been a rare week, and a short one with the holiday. I will be back to my old blogging self tomorrow, and will post a new Podcast on Monday night, as per normal. Second, as many of you already know, my firm, the Linthicum Group, LLC, was acquired by ZapThink this week. I’m now a managing partner at Zap, working with the current ZapThinkers…Jason and Ron. Ron founded the firm back in 2000, Jason joined shortly after that. You can read all about the acquisition here, but here are a few excerpts: “ZapThink, LLC, the industry’s foremost advisory firm focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) today announces the acquisition of The Linthicum Group, LLC, a well-respected SOA consulting firm, and the addition of David S. Linthicum to ZapThink. ZapThink will expand its intellectual property and team with expertise and resources from the acquisition to provide ZapThink customers with expert SOA advisory, research, and guidance. The announcement was made during Linthicum’s keynote address to the e-Gov Institute’s 7th Enterprise Architecture Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC.” …which was yesterday. I meant to record it for the Podcast, but my Rio recorder would not work for some reason. The audience was great. I wish I could have stayed for the rest of the show. “In addition to the Linthicum Group’s well-respected and renowned work in the SOA and enterprise integration marketplaces, David Linthicum is a highly visible thought leader who is responsible for writing for and managing a number of significant blogs and publications, as well as speaking at hundreds of industry events over the course of his career.” Truth-be-told I’ve received a lot of offers in the last year, and I felt that ZapThink was the best fit. I’ve known Ron and Jason for years, and they are both “real world” guys who tell it like it is, like me. Thus, I suspect that we’ll all have some good fun in the forthcoming years helping clients, educating the world on SOA, writing and speaking about SOA, and fighting the good fight as the SOA market takes off. I could not imagine doing anything else right now. Software Development