Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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SOAP Backlash. Joel Spolsky writes,
Just watch, I predict within three weeks InfoWorld runs out of ideas for Web Services stories and has to run a big spread on how Web Services were "overhyped" and now CTOs are "revolting" against "vaporware."
Okay, that's May 16. Mark your calendars.
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 6:45:08 PM 
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Opinari. David Chappell has launched an email newsletter--off to a good start. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending David's presentation at SofTech, entitled "Web Services - .NET - The Microsoft Vision." Although the topic was intentionally Microsoft-centric, David was objective and painted an honest Microsoft-vs.-the-rest-of-the-world picture.
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 5:35:06 PM
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Web Services Claptrap. Phil Wainewright goes on the offensive:
Web services enable a completely new way of building applications from componentised online services. But that's not what the established industry would have you believe. Ask any analyst or vendor today, and they'll tell you that the purpose of web services is to make it easier to integrate existing applications together...[W]eb services do not exist to patch up the shortcomings of present-day applications. They will make them obsolete.
There's a war going on between those with different views of what web services are or what they should be. I don't agree with everything Phil writes on this topic, but he expresses it well, and you should read the full article in his own words.
I see value in both Phil's vision and the use of the same technologies to solve many of the real integration challenges many CIOs face today. Phil may be right that web services have the potential to obsolete those truly awful monolithic applications we have to deal with today, and I want my clients to see Phil's "vision of the future," but I also want them to be realistic about the timeframe for the manifestation of that vision and to take shorter-term advantage of what the technology can allow them to do today. We get paid to call it the way we see it, and we're not all going to see it the same way. It is important to know who's paying the bills of anyone whose opionions you hear, of course. Just ask Merrill Lynch.
Posted Friday, April 26, 2002 5:08:48 PM
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