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To: alydar who wrote (67149)	4/11/2002 8:29:29 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 74651

blisenko, "as the future of computing, in which people will be able to tap their data on any device with an Internet connection." How prolific, soon browsers with secure socket connections will be on laptops, phones and PDAs! "They were also worried about the idea of having a single company -- Microsoft, through its MSN Internet unit -- be the sole repository for the personal and highly sensitive data needed to make the services work," So much for distributed computing and competition. To access the Central Database just connect to http:/198.419.841.984 or www.tractorfactory.com Cheers, Norm

To: alydar who wrote (67149)	4/12/2002 7:56:22 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Rocky - Another journalist looking for a headline. Web services from the get-go were capable of being hosted from totally private repositories - it is in the original specs of the underlying standards, which are public and not controlled by Microsoft, although Microsoft and IBM did a lot to drive them. Sun was also involved in the development of those standards. Microsoft originally believed that the first use of web services would be for consumer apps, and that a big player such as Microsoft would need to enable those apps by providing the repositories. since creation and maintenance of the infrastructure to support web services was fairly complex. But businesses have started doing just that - creating their own web services infrastructures to support business to business web services. The "new" positioning is just a practical recognition of that fact. Standards for electronic business using web services, such as RosettaNet or the UN-sponsored ebXML standards, defined many of the transactions needed, and big outfits such as Ford are actively developing processes that use the technology. I have attended several of the developer conferences around web services, and the thrust of developer response is mostly around the need to enable those business applications, since that is where the most clear economic benefits lie. In the last year, a number of companies have done pilot projects, and some production applications, using web services for business exchange. The comments to Microsoft reflect the desire of developers to see faster implementation of tools and products which support business.