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 ...

The real long-term prize of any business collaboration lies in mobilizing the assets of partners to deliver more value to customers. Emerging Web services technologies will play a crucial role in ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Redline Networks recently announced a partnership with DataPower Technology to bring their products together, offering a single product to allow Web-enabled enterprise data centers to provide faster, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...