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Hosting Web Services. In this brief InfoWorld piece, Tom Sullivan nibbles at the question of web-services hosting.
Food for thought: As web-hosting vendors continue to consolidate and otherwise adjust to more difficult times, might the hosting of web services be a part of their salvation? As organizations deploy external web services, they're going to encounter the same challenges they did with deploying e-commerce: How to deliver more robust systems than their IT departments are used to delivering for in-house applications. Some will turn to hosting services. Will we call those outsourcers web-service providers (WSPs), or will the now-tainted ASP acronym return?
[Update: Read about Julian Bond's real-world experiences from implementing web services on shared server at WebFusion and Interland. Doesn't this sound like what we all went through (or still go through) trying to host e-commerce apps? Hence the challenge for the web-hosting vendor community. At some point, web services will move from the DIY model to that of hosted packages. One guess: Look for hosted "portlet" servers to appear.]
Posted Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:04:58 PM 
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