Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Second Only to the Internet. The Yankee Group says web services "have the potential to be second only to the Internet in the importance and impact on corporations and consumers [and that] mainstream adoption of web services is most likely 2 to 3 years away." [Source: Yankee Group report, Top Vendors Already Stake Their Claims in Web Services.]
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:14:30 PM 
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OASIS' UBL versus the Semantic Web. Ten months ago I linked to a December 2001 paper from OASIS on their idea for a Universal Business Language (UBL), an XML version of EDI. Last month in InfoWorld, Paul Krill wrote that a version 0.70 spec was ready for review, with a general release expected later this year--roughly 18 months after the first description. On one hand, that's awfully slow and rather typical of the UN/CEFACT process. On the other hand, web services aren't ready for UBL anyway, so perhaps the timing's not so bad after all.
In Krill's story he quotes Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink as saying he "doubted OASIS would succeed in providing standard forms for business. [Schmelzer said] 'How can hospitals and manufacturing firms and aerospace industries all share the same notion of an invoice?...Even if they all adopt the core business language, they're going to have different extentions on it.'" Schmelzer, a smart guy, is said by Krill to favor the semantic web instead, although I see the concepts as somwhat orthogonal.
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:08:46 PM
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Bob Sutor's Wish List. IBM's Dr. Bob's prayers for 2003 include:
- Bob says "this is the breakour year for web-services technology," and he'd like to see "Web-Services Enabled" on new enterprise software. [Bob: I think you're one or two years early, but I guess that's your job.]
- Interoperability issues still need to be addressed. [Yup, still problems at the SOAP layer, let alone above it.]
- Security: "Make IT systems integration no more open to risk than cashins a check at the bank."
- The "freeing of Java" from Sun's control. [Only IBM could hope to convince sun to do so. Even then, it's tough, since Sun has so little left to hang onto.]
- Linux becomes the operating system of choice for Web services. [Another nail in Sun's (Solaris) coffin. Oh yea...then there's Microsoft and .NET.]
[Source: ZDNet]
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:54:39 PM
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