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Just to focus this a little more, where in the context of using web services do the differences between turnkey commercial systems and one-off or highly customized applications become evident? If this question can't be answered succinctly, web services cannot be bid because the contracts manager will have no means to indicate exceptions. If the impact of this is not understood, the bidder has little or no chance of winning business, thus investors are cautioned strongly to avoid their stock if their business plan indicates a market that is RFP-driven. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) What are web services good for? What are they not good for? Useful topics: contract-based business (not the interface contract of the remote systems, but the contracts for services among the businesses), orchestration of processes to ensure compliant deliverables, hierarchical review and remote decision making (authority and delegation); how are QOS issues and defaults on contracts detected and handled? I have this sense that some consider web services another technology in search of a problem to solve. I have this sense that the simple solution advocated may promise but cannot deliver when the requirements become complex. Are web services just a document management system writ large or can they enable a very wide distributed application that does more than post weblogs? A crab moves but for the crab, sideways is forward. When there are obstacles, that well may be so, so a survey of the terrain is in order to determine the path to a goal. If the path has no goals that can be clearly expressed, then the direction is meaningless. This is as true for the web as for the crab.
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