Web Services: Still some clouds ahead

July 18, 2003

Web services--the technology heralded as a way to connect incompatible software--is suffering from a communications breakdown as rival alliances jockey to establish standards. In a mark of an increasingly contentious standards-setting process, two factions have developed competing proposals.

Web services, an umbrella term for a set of programming standards that allows disparate systems to exchange information easily, hasn't lived up to early hype as the underpinning for futuristic online retail scenarios and for building-block services of rentable applications for business.

But the technology has made strides within big companies as the basis of more mundane but increasingly important links between business systems.

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