Open source e-business (Score 1)

Slashdot has already covered HP's e-speak technology which will be released as open source early next year. It is a platform for e-business which looks promising. Crucially (as opposed to some middleware) it will provide support for billing as well as QoS issues. This seems to be just what you are looking for! The HP initiative is nice in that it provides all the 'comfort' for manager types of coming from a blue chip as well as been open.