If you're moving to a SOA anyway, this won't be much of an issue in the long term. Most applications in the client-server realm can easily be moved to a services-based infrastructure, and in the long run, that will be most advantageous to developers and the business alike.
Open-Source Stacks
The term LAMP stack originally described a complete application infrastructure based on Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL open-source database and PHP scripting language--LAMP. In the past year, the number of open-source stacks, and vendors supporting them, has grown considerably. Python and Perl joined PHP as the "P" in LAMP. Then, Ruby on Rails (RoR) became all the rage, and this year MuleSource offered up its SMuT stack (Spring Framework, Mule and Apache Tomcat--we couldn't make this stuff up) as an alternative to ESB. Web sites and media moguls tracking open-source stacks are even buzzing about a possible Sun Microsystems stack that includes Solaris, PostGRES, Apache and Rails--perhaps they'll call it SPAR.
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