In case if you have missed, here are some excellent articles that were published on Byteonic over the last week:

Gnip, online message oriented middleware : Message Queuing technology makes integration simple. Integration among Web 2.0 services involves the same challenges as in the enterprise. What are these challenges? How are these challenges addressed by Gnip, an online Message oriented Middleware (MoM)? In this article I started off presenting a primer to Message Queuing, kinds of messaging etc.

To scale or not using Gigaspaces : This article discusses the Space Based Architectural approach used for web application scaling by Gigaspaces and answers the question whether you should scale your application using Gigaspaces or not?

What does Google Chrome portend for the enterprise and Web 2.0? : The beta version of Google Chrome suffers from some security vulnerabilities however Chrome is here to stay. This article analyzes what impact does Chrome have on the enterprise and web 2.0 markets?

The Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the enterprise : One of the emerging markets in the IT industry is of Cloud Computing. While PaaS is part of the cloud computing definition, however, it is not clear whether Software as a Service (SaaS) will be part of this emerging technology. This article answers the question would development in the enterprise evolve into a PaaS?, by evaluating the current PaaS market offerings.

AdventNet, one product for performance and service management needs : AdventNet offers approximately forty two products, though the company has a presence in SaaS segment competing with Google and Salesforce; however the enterprise management software offering is compelling for reasons discussed in the article followed by a focused discussion on one of their most interesting products Applications Manager, that is capable to perform end to end monitoring of the web application stack.