I. Guyon and D. Stork (2000)
Linear Discriminant and Support Vector Classifiers
In: Advances in Large Margin Classifiers, ed. by A.J. Smola and P.L. Bartlett and B. Schölkopf and D. Schuurmans, pp. 147-169, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
Review of linear discriminant algorithms. SVMs in feature space are one special case of this, and the authors point out similarities and differences to other cases. Placing SVMs into this wider context provides a most useful backdrop which should help avoiding SVM specialist discussions losing sight of the general picture.