Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Rivalry Bogs down Web Services. The latest fight is between Microsoft/IBM/BEA's new WS-Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) and Web Services Reliability (WS-R) submitted by Sun, Oracle, and others to OASIS in February. This is a critical component for advanced web services, and some analysts see the continued rift between these groups as a significant barrier to progress. But the people I speak to when I want to find out what's really going on tell me not to worry. Microsoft and IBM carry so much clout, they say, that it's a non-issue. WS-RM will push out WS-R in relatively short order.
Update: Phil Wainewright thinks Standards dissent is overblown.
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:34:01 PM 
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The Future of Applications. A good interview with Tim O'Reilly by Robert McMillan prior to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention two weeks ago.
- "All of the killer apps of the Internet era – Amazon, Google, and Maps.yahoo.com. They run on Linux or FreeBSD." [This is Tim's important message these days, that Amazon, Google, etc., are applications.]
- Today's software licenses (including open-source licenses) are insufficient because with applications like Amazon and Google it's the data--not the code--that's being licensed to others. [One no longer distributes software. Rather, one provides access to data through web services. Whatever software is required executes at the publisher's location. And that software per se is of no interest to the consumers of the service.] "The value will be driven up the stack to data."
- "Amazon really understands that they are becoming a platform. They are becoming the ecommerce engine of an awful lot more of the Internet than people realise."
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:21:01 PM
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