In true ESRI form, they re-named something generic because it was GIS, so it needed a different name.
Tasks == Web services
What ESRI has done that has not been done in the OSS world is standardize the bindings for their web services so their clients can discover and consume them on the fly. I don't know of any non-ESRI consumers of ESRI "tasks". I also don't know of any reason why you wouldn't want to expose your web services as something a lot simpler, as the folks at mecklenburg did, for example.
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On 31-Jan-08, at 10:16 AM, dnrg wrote:

Is there a FOSS equivalent to ArcGIS Server /
publishing out geoprocessing *tasks*? Or does ESRI
have something unique in that regard?

Don't know if ArcGIS Server tasks can be "consumed" by
anything other than Arc* clients (e.g. ArcGIS Explorer
/ Globe or ArcMap), or ESRI run-time one-off clients.


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