I came across an interesting piece by Adam Bosworth titled "What is the platform?"
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Author: Kingsley Uyi Idehen Published: 10/05/2004 12:31 GMT-0500 Modified: 06/22/2006 08:56 GMT-0500 Tags: .net Categories: Virtual Database , SQL , Semantic Web , Web Services (Web 2.0) , Content Syndication , Commentary , XML , Web Services , Database Technology Comment Status: 0 Comments Permalink: http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/kidehen@openlinksw.com/weblog/kidehen@openlinksw.com%27s%20BLOG%20%5B127%5D/624