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Now they have to prove a web service is a reliable means to implement a complex application with local customization requirements. Not only hard, can you say "expensive"? Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: David Orchard [mailto:orchard@p...] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:26 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: What are web services good for? (WAS: RE: Two new features o f th e Web) Mike, The article that you quote is on aspnews.com. ASP news promotes and covers the Application Service Provider industry, which is effectively the browser web service industry. From an ASPs perspective, allowing programmatic access in addition to their current browser access is probably their next big thing. I've worked in the ASP industry, and all the ASPs are adding programmable XML interfaces. And further, ASPs are the only companies out there generating revenue from the browser web service model, and they are the only ones trying to start making money from the xml web service model. Sun/Microsoft/BEA etc. sell into ASPs but don't make money from the service offering. Given the ASP business model, and where they are going to expand, they are the ones that are the closest to ground-zero of any xml web services revolution. Having said that, I do have some serious technical and business model issues with all the web services hype. It's a lot harder than some vendors want to admit. Cheers, Dave Orchard On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:01 AM, Champion, Mike [SMTP:Mike.Champion@S...] wrote: > > <snip/> > > I'm glad you posted this question ... I was about to do the same thing. > Irrespective of the details of SOAP, UDDI/WSDL/whatever, .NET ... why has > this become the "next big thing?" As previous discussions have indicated, > "web services" are not all that much different from what people can do with > the Web today (OK, Web services are for machines, not people ...) and we've > been able to do remote procedure calls on Unix for decades, over COM/CORBA > for years ... what's the big deal? Why do I see assertions such as "There's > little argument that XML Web services are the future of computing" > http://www.aspnews.com/trends/article/0,2350,9921_868321,00.html every time > I look at the trade press? > <snip/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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