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April 28th-May 4th, 2002

Why web services will unravel Microsoft's dominance

Microsoft's testimony in the current anti-trust proceedings contradicts its position on web services, points out CBDi ...

Web services mean fatter clients, remote-managed

It's wrong to believe that web services mean everything will be done on the server and every client will be dumb, as ...

Intelligent agents for dummies

Wouldn't it be nice if you could send an email or text message saying, "Give me last month's sales," and get an answer ...

Business definitions of web services

Two competing definitions of web services, one founded in technology, the other focussing on the business angle, ...

WebServicesThatSuck?

Vincent Flanders, author of Web Pages That Suck, is looking forward to a whole new generation of bad site design to ...


April 21st-27th, 2002

Learning to publish, learning to subscribe

There should be an embargo on the use of the word 'consumer' when describing the recipient of a web service. Being on ...

Patterns of web services adoption

Research by the Stencil Group has found that enterprise adoption of web services is exhibiting "several systematic ...

The real price of new technology

Technologists often find it inexplicable when businesses refuse to adopt new innovations, even when they have the ...

Microsoft denounces 'ungrounded' web services hype

So Microsoft believes some vendors are guilty of over-hyping web services — this according to The Register, in a ...

Google API awakens the hive

Every so often in technology, something comes along that opens up new angles on the way we think about things. That's ...

Will web services go the same way as ASPs?

It's not just me. Gartner analyst Ben Pring is equally doubtful whether vendors are quite as keen on web services as ...

An introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture

The emergence of on-demand web services is leading people to start talking about the concept of Service-Oriented ...


April 14th-20th, 2002

Are applications software, or the result of software?

"The Google Applications directory is a nice idea (Googlematic is great!), but it raises the question 'what is an ...

Why the Google API is important

Let's cut to the chase here, courtesy of Dave Winer:"Could Amazon implement a money-making SOAP interface? Without a ...

A good time to adopt web services

IT strategy consultant Doug Kaye has published a draft of a methodology for determining When to Dive into Web Services. ...

Google API shows the way ahead

Prompted by an inadvertent leak of the news the previous weekend, last Thursday (Apr 11th), Google released the beta of ...

Microsoft's strategy for web services infrastructure

Of all the announcements coming out of TechEd last week, the most important concerned Microsoft's relationships with ...

McAfee.com deploys web services, grid computing and P2P

The trouble with trendy new technologies is that they carry a strong whiff of 'toys for the boys' that leaves many ...

Web services security: no longer an issue

Perhaps people will stop bleating about web services being full of security holes now that IBM, Microsoft and Verisign ...


April 7th-13th, 2002

Service grids will guarantee premium web services

Some useful links and explanation from WebServices.org about the concept of 'service grids'. These are networks that ...

What is a web service, anyway?

Representatives of Sun and Microsoft spent a morning in court earlier this week attempting to define web services in ...

Customization, personalization, economy and convenience

Here is a useful article from Knowledge@Wharton, reviewing the differences between customization and personalization, ...

First web services doubts appear

After hype comes disillusion. When you see a headline like Web services riddled with problems, then you know the first ...

Loosely coupled integration in the real world

In the IT world, the word integration conjures up thoughts of shared data stores and real-time access from one ...

Assembling weblogs as a KM tool

Knowledge Management expert David Gurteen began researching weblogs a few weeks back, and his latest email newsletter ...


March 31st-April 6th, 2002

Building applications from applications

Web services architectures change the way that you look at applications. You have to stop thinking of them as packaged ...

IDC maps a route into web services for ASPs

My column on ASPnews this week made reference to some market figures from IDC in a way that may have given the ...

When did the mainstream ever overturn the status quo?

It turns out that Amy Wohl doesn't agree with my assessment last week of the contribution the Web Services ...

What web services can do for you - in layman's terms

This overview from McKinsey is a useful introduction to web services from a layperson's business perspective, rather ...

Sun needs to wise up on web services standards

Sun's displeasure at being left out of the founding group of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has ...


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