Here's a great new description of the Enterprise Service Bus, put forth by Bobby Woolf, WebSphere SOA and J2EE Consultant for IBM: The ESB is "the equivalent of a human appendix for the IT department, ...

You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without this organ because it serves no purpose, but how much truth is there in ...

In our basic biology classes, we were taught about a small organ called the appendix and were told that it is vestigial, meaning it has no function in the body. However, recent studies have challenged ...

Not surprisingly, former Fox News contributor George Will has equivocated PBS with a human appendix (“purposeless”; “inessential”). (“How Corporation for Public Broadcasting is like an appendix”, ER ...