Web Services Have a Way to Go. Mark Lucovsky at Microsoft said today that Web services have a way to go. It's interesting that Microsoft is now taking such a stance. Did Microsoft use Web Services for the past two years to hide the fact that Microsoft didn't have a competitor to Java that was shipping? [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog]
No, I don't think so. The company where I work, works very closely with Lucovsky's HailStorm group. It was my understanding, that they grew to realize that they had not succeeded well initially with HailStorm because of some propreitary approaches and not based on standards. They re-organized around the GXA effort, which is a good thing. They also realized, based on feedback from people like us, that what they initially gave us was far from capable to develop real, production Web Services. To get there, Web Services need Security, Routing, Inspection, Robustness, etc. Thus GXA. And as far as I understand it, this is being done with IBM and is totally based on Industry standards. So when Lucovsky says "Web Services have a way to go" he is just speaking the truth.
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