Five years ago, I was speaking with a technology provider about the accessibility of their service. A lot of their functionality was delivered via a Flash-based interface. Knowing that content in a ...

The hype of Web services has subsided. However, anyone who has been around long enough to live through years of enterprise application implementations will discover that Web services and ...

Only a few years ago, the high-tech industry was afire with talk of "network computing" and "push technology." Then "PC-TV convergence" came into vogue, only to give way to "B2B" and "ASPs," which in ...

When Bill Gates first put the words "Web" and "services" together in 2000 at a Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Orlando, Fla., Web Services was barely more than a novel idea. Processing ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems on Tuesday continued their battle for Web services developers by releasing a batch of tools and new technologies. IBM said it will offer a new starter kit that will allow ...

"Bricks, nails, pipes and wiring all are of limited value to building a house if you don't have them in standard formats that can be reused," Scott says. "I see Web services the same way: building ...

A year ago, Web services technology was more theory than reality, and many outsourcing service providers regarded it as a speculative market. Today, Web services are clearly becoming a lucrative ...

Don’t fight reality. While purveyors of Web services paint a picture in which companies generate new revenue by connecting with new customers, fresh research from Jupiter Media Metrix debunks that ...

Although Microsoft Corp. and other software vendors are pushing Web services as the next big thing, users and analysts warned last week that companies looking to implement the conceptually simple ...

Two years ago, Ed Horst, an executive at Web services start-up AmberPoint, walked into his CEO's office with a report from influential research firm Gartner Group and a prediction. At the time, the ...

BEA Systems early in 2004 plans to have a reference implementation of Java technology intended to simplify deployment of Web services, based on the company’s own WebLogic Workshop IDE. Java ...

WEB SERVICES’ PROMISE to eliminate the complexities of EAI (enterprise application integration) plays like a siren’s song to all levels of IT management. Worn down by mounting costs for EAI-related ...