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July 28th-August 3rd, 2002

Multisourcing services

Hosting, outsourcing and professional services are all merging into a single services ecosystem called multisourcing, ...

Web services whizz kids

At the time, I thought I was joking, but it turns out that there already was a WSBANG, and this week it reached version ...

.Net levity

Last week's .Net relaunch by Microsoft is summed up best by these two articles:Microsoft on .Net: Hard work ahead ...

Pet Market showcases rich client capabilities

Macromedia has put together a fully-documented demo app that shows off the rich client capabilities of its new MX ...

Web services stall big spending

People are able to do more with less when using web services, which makes traditional measures of market activity ...


July 21st-27th, 2002

The Web is the platform

Some good pieces about using weblogs in business have appeared recently. But I was irritated by the glib assertion in ...

Gates admits .Net shortcomings

In a laudably frank appraisal of Microsoft's progress to date with its .Net strategy, company chairman Bill Gates ...

Quote of the day

Dave Winer, commenting on a posting in Paolo Valdemarin's weblog: "If one were to write a definition of the Web, loose ...

Money makes the world go round

Web services architectures include no practical mechanisms for collecting revenues, which is going to become a major ...

Back to basics with Berners-Lee

WorldWideWeb creator Tim Berners-Lee cites two historically significant aspects of the current move towards web ...

Cherry-picking SOAP and REST

A detailed essay by the influential Sam Ruby makes it clear that both SOAP and REST have roles to play in the web ...


July 14th-20th, 2002

Loosely coupled invention

To glimpse the awesome potential of loosely coupled systems, take a look at BookWatch Plus. Thousands of discrete web ...

Owning the Universal Canvas

The next release of Office moves closer to Microsoft's oft-repeated vision of the Universal Canvas — which, as I ...

Nurturing an SOA mindset

Adopting a service-oriented architecture means rethinking traditional approaches to application development:"The ...

Apple satirizes .Net

In what I can only hope is a deliberate attempt at satire, Apple Computer today launched .Mac, a bundle of ...

Lessons in herding cats

Guaranteeing autonomy is the key to winning agreement on web services standards. That was the message that resonated ...

Novell chooses its Destiny well

Of all the announcements relating to digital identity this week, the most impressive so far has been Novell's, which ...


July 7th-13th, 2002

When and how to use REST

WSDL is moving to the fore as the core foundation standard of web services, with both SOAP and UDDI seen as often ...

Desktop apps will deconstruct, says Sun

Japan is buzzing with web services excitement, as IDG's Web Services Conference gets under way with as many as 1,000 ...

Forrester warns of web services wildfire

Web services will sweep through the enterprise like wildfire, and CIOs will be powerless against the onrush, according ...

Christensen on standards and componentization

The race to define standards for web services looks distinctly premature. We have a core foundation set on which more ...

Acquiring a network mindset

Closed systems aren't designed to get the best out of a networked environment, that much is obvious. But most people ...


June 30th-July 6th, 2002

The trouble with SOAP

Ripples continue in the debate about whether SOAP is an over-engineered, unnecessary addition to the web services ...

You mean, you couldn't do that already?

One of the disconnects that emerges when talking about web services is that developers seem to be surprised and ...

Security is not a technology barrier

Security is a word that has many meanings. When customers cite it as an objection to web-based technologies, the ...

The true meaning of loosely coupled

Loosely coupled is a mindset, not a machine state. It's about how you manage your business:"Management, not technology, ...

Web services the wrong way

Expunge the term API from your web services vocabulary. The very concept of an application programming interface is ...

The Web is the computer

Finally the message is getting through — the Web is becoming a single, shared infrastructure for collaborative ...


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