Doug's Inner Net News
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Following up on the previous post, we all know the standards game: it's a delicate game of coopetition. Cooperate, but don't cooperate too much. It couldn't hurt to hire a political consultant or two, as they probably have some highly transferable skills that could help in playing the standards game.
OpenStandards.net: Web Services There are some interesting points in this article. Microsoft clearly has no choice but to play along with open standards in web services. If Microsoft were to do otherwise, their proprietary web services technology would be adopted no more than DCOM has been adopted. As I was reading this article, it occurred to me: SOAP, unlike CORBA and DCOM, is being supported by Microsoft and Sun and IBM and BEA and etc. That observation alone would seem to suggest that SOAP will achieve much more than CORBA or DCOM. A few years back, we used to wonder what distributed computing would be like if Microsoft supported CORBA. Maybe with SOAP, we will get a chance to see what the world of distributed computing is like when Microsoft plays along, instead of competing with a proprietary technology.
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Tuesday, April 23, 2002Following up on the previous post, we all know the standards game: it's a delicate game of coopetition. Cooperate, but don't cooperate too much. It couldn't hurt to hire a political consultant or two, as they probably have some highly transferable skills that could help in playing the standards game.
10:06:07 PM 
OpenStandards.net: Web Services There are some interesting points in this article. Microsoft clearly has no choice but to play along with open standards in web services. If Microsoft were to do otherwise, their proprietary web services technology would be adopted no more than DCOM has been adopted. As I was reading this article, it occurred to me: SOAP, unlike CORBA and DCOM, is being supported by Microsoft and Sun and IBM and BEA and etc. That observation alone would seem to suggest that SOAP will achieve much more than CORBA or DCOM. A few years back, we used to wonder what distributed computing would be like if Microsoft supported CORBA. Maybe with SOAP, we will get a chance to see what the world of distributed computing is like when Microsoft plays along, instead of competing with a proprietary technology.
10:01:55 PM