Topic story was not all that interesting (Cisco re-invents the wheel!), but it led me to Thrift (http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ http://developers.facebo

Topic story was not all that interesting (Cisco re-invents the wheel!), but it led me to Thrift (http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/) and Ice (http://zeroc.com/index.html http://zeroc.com/index.html), which I didn't know about.