Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides an attractive alternative to conventional, monolithic applications. With a shared, multi-tiered infrastructure comprised of enterprise business services, SOA is increasingly seen as a way to improve agility, enhance productivity, reduce costs, and achieve full interoperability. Those benefits are attractive to the many organizations fighting for competitive…

Have you ever met an audiophile? You know the type. It’s the guys who spend thousands for stereo equipment that sounds much better than your system, but only they can hear the difference. They spend money on things that seem more like magic than physics. I mean, who knew that…

Do you remember Grimms’ fairytale about the goat that lied to its master every evening? “Well, I jumped over stones and wood,” said the goat “but nowhere did I find food, meh, meh!” Here in Crete such a lying beast would have ended up in the pot, especially in spring…

Nikos Psaroudakis has spent the last 11 years scratching around for a living. But he likes it that way because he can leave work every day with history under his finger. As he pecks away with his hand pick at the rocky soil beneath Aptera’s ancient wall on the edge…