links for 2007-04-11

• Closing a chapter of open source | InfoWorld | Column | 2007-04-09 | By Neil McAllister
  “a simple premise: Open source and open standards are here to stay.” “Simply put, the discussion around open source has grown far beyond the ability of a weekly column to encapsulate it all.”
  (tags: open-source open-standards)
• Apache Seeks Harmony with Sun
  On the importance of open tests to validate open-source implementations of a standard. Conformance testing is key to maintaining the integrity of a standard.
  (tags: open-source open-standards java)