[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
9/25/2002 11:11:04 PM, Rob Griffin <Rob.Griffin@oz.quest.com> wrote:
> providers assume
> that investing in Web Services will pay off in the long run because
> Microsoft is behind it.
Sigh. I also see things like http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6672
"the simple fact that two software giants [MS and IBM] agree on them
[the WS-* specifications] makes them all-but-guaranteed to succeed."
I was one of the people who invested lots of time/money in OS/2 during
1988-199? because "the simple fact that two software giants agree on it
makes [it] all-but-guaranteed to succeed." :-)
Those aspects of Web services that actually work, interoperate, scale, and
deliver value to their users will succeed. The rest will reside on the
Island of Forgotten Software, somewhere in the River Styx, for all eternity.
|
