- Open source - The Salvation Army of software?
- Who is ZigBee and what does it want?
- Zafi-B and Netsky-P lead virus list for September
- Replacing an Old Friend
- Wi-Fi Philadelphia Style
- Sympathy for Craig
- Is Google ogling a browser?
- Finally, a practical application of mesh networks
- Get your free Java application server
- Woody's words to live by (or Carly shows up)
September 30, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Open source - The Salvation Army of software?
Is open source becoming the dumping ground for no-longer-wanted software, sort of like a Salvation Army dropoff point for programs instead of old clothes?
Some recent announcements lend credence to this argument.
Red Hat on Thursday announced it would acquire Netscape's Directory Server and Certificate Management System from AOL and make them available via open source. This follows Computer Associates's announcement in May that it would offer the Ingres database via open source. IBM is doing the same thing with the Cloudscape embeddable database it became the owner of when acquiring the Informix database business three years ago.
This is not to say that open source is just for products that have perhaps faded from the limelight, which was the case with Ingres. Sun Microsystems is making its Project Looking Glass 3D user interface technology available via open source, and that software is next-generation, not old-time or obsolete. This is also not to say that open source software is not high-quality, whether it's new projects or old software.
Putting products such as the Netscape offerings or Ingres into open source makes sense because it gives new life to these technologies and it certainly works for developers, too. Enterprise IT departments, for their part, can only benefit by having a broader selection of software made available at minimal or no cost.
Hopefully, the trend of putting older software into the open source arena is one that will only increase.
Posted by Paul Krill on September 30, 2004 02:36 PM
September 30, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Who is ZigBee and what does it want?
For a small operation the ZigBee Alliance appears to have an excellent public relations team working for it. Everybody you ask has heard of them. Of course very few people can actually tell you who they are or what they do.
I was one of those avoiding the press releases and offers to do one-on-one interviews, but they finally caught me in a weak moment and I spoke with Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance.
Now I know and I thought I'd pass it on to you.
ZigBee is a group of major sensor manufacturers, Ember, Honeywell, Invensys, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Philips and Samsung, plus semiconductor manufacturers, wireless IP providers, OEMs and users.
The goal is to take sensor technology mainstream by creating a standard for remote wireless monitoring and control.
To that end ZigBee proponents want the radio to be IEEE 802.15.4 with ZigBee adding the logical network, security and application framework.
IEEE 802.15.4 is low power, a single 9 volt battery can last for years in a sensor, has a low cost bill of materials, $3 compared to $9 for IEEE 802.11, according to ZigBee and it and it can support over 65,000 nodes in a mesh network.
I wrote about sensors and mesh a few blogs ago, so use this link if you want to know more about that.
Here's a nice example of how it might work. Take a 50-story hotel in Manhattan and put a wireless sensor in every thermostat and one person sitting at the front desk can monitor the HVAC each individual room to insure an empty room is not being cooled or heated. Also, at check in a guest can request at the front desk a specific temperature.
There are thousands of applications for sensors currently in use and if you sit down for a moment you can probably think of a dozen new applications yourself.
IBM announced earlier this week it is investing $250 million in sensor technology so you can bet sensor technology will soon go beyond the market for industrial controllers.
I believe sensors networked by mesh technology will rapidly change what we know about the world we live in.
Posted by Ephraim. Schwartz on September 30, 2004 12:05 PM
September 30, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Zafi-B and Netsky-P lead virus list for September
Sophos posted its top 10 virus list for September, and the Zafi-B and Netsky-P are number one and two in the month, respectively.
Here is the full list:
1. W32/Zafi-B 30.5% June 04
2. W32/Netsky-P 26.7% March 04
3. W32/Netsky-D 6.1% March 04
4. W32/Netsky-Z 5.5% April 04
5. W32/Bagle-AA 3.8% April 04
6. W32/MyDoom-O 3.6% July 04
7. W32/Netsky-B 3.5% February 04
8. W32/Netsky-Q 2.7% March 04
9. W32/Lovgate-V 2.6% April 04
10. W32/Netsky-C 2.0% February 04
Others 13.0%
The vendor found that one in 15 e-mails contained a virus during September.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 30, 2004 08:29 AM
September 29, 2004 | Comments: (0)
I replaced an old friend last week - my 1997 vintage 19-inch monitor. I re-placed it with - no big surprise - a brand new 19-inch flat panel monitor from NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems.
My old 1997 version is a boat anchor by comparison. I knew that the moment the UPS man scowled in disgust when he delivered it years ago. Most people didn't have 19-inch monitors then, but I knew I would be working on my system day and night, so I sprang for the larger screen.
It covered my desk so completely; I had to move my keyboard to the side until I finally added an extension. The box it came in wouldn't fit in my slightly-smaller-than-average attic doorway. I considered making a dog house out of the box, but hated the thought that my dog might have more bedrooms than I did. Despite its size, weight and general bulkiness, the ViewSonic 19-inch monitor did the job - it saved my eyes from continual squinting and eye strain.
I can't recall how much the thing cost. I know it was a premium product at the time and cost more than the flat panel that sleekly stands on my desk like an unobtrusive picture frame. When the new monitor showed up on my doorstep, I could lift it with one hand and if I tried to make a doghouse out of it, I'd be turned into the SPCA.
My old monitor is going to a family with four kids in school and an old 15-inch monitor. The father in the family asked me how much I wanted for it and I told him it was free: as long as he moved it.
- Bob Francis
Posted by Jack McCarthy on September 29, 2004 01:49 PM
September 28, 2004 | Comments: (0)
The New York Times this morning ran a story on how the city of brotherly love is embarking on a projected two-year plan to offer free wireless access in all of the city's public places.
Philadelphia's CIO is cited in the article saying the blueprint calls for providing free wireless access in public areas, and that could extend to qualifying homes and businesses.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2004 06:06 AM
September 27, 2004 | Comments: (0)
You could certainly feel sorry for PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway when he asked at his company's user show last week: Have you ever had a bad dream that wouldn't seem to end?
Oracle's nasty takeover strategy colors everything PeopleSoft does these days. And that's not likely to change soon, with European Union officials leading people to believe they will approve of the Oracle takeover.
Uncertainty over PeopleSoft's future will muddy the waters as the company seeks to sets its course, says Donovan Gow, vice president of equity research at American Technology Research. He added that the takeover attempt is likely to last until the middle of next year before it gets resolved.
But give Conway some credit for the partnership he announced with IBM to deliver PeopleSoft applications over IBM's WebSphere middleware and development tools.
Gartner says the deal provides real value to customers, with IBM especially gaining flexibility to offer a wider variety of applications over its middleware.
Jeff Comport, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner commented that: IBM has carefully stayed out of the application business, and infrastructure sales are tied to implementation of major packaged applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel.
He added that IBM has been able to provide arms to all sides.
In other words, Big Blue makes out no matter what happens to PeopleSoft.
- Jack McCarthy
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2004 06:49 AM
September 24, 2004 | Comments: (0)
If the rumors-- some now reaching fever pitch-- are to be trusted, Google is cooking up a whole slew of products and technologies that could unseat Microsoft.
The latest Blog and tech news chatter speculates that Google is working on a Web browser. Various reports circling the Internet point to the recently purchased 'gbrowser.com' domain name, a patent application, and new hires with expertise in browser technology and Internet Explorer. Google also hosted the open-source Web browser event Mozilla Developer Day.
Aside from the Web browser segment, other tech projects possibly being whipped up in Google's kitchen include a desktop search offering to take on Microsoft's forthcoming OS-level search efforts. Other less publicized whispers are a Google-flavored instant messaging system and even a full-fledged operating system.
Bill Gates may rest safely atop the Forbes richest 400 list for now, but he --and the rest of Redmond--should fear Google.
Posted by Cathleen Moore on September 24, 2004 01:12 PM
September 23, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Finally, a practical application of mesh networks
Mesh networks, the idea of passing data from one node to another around the globe has had one of its first sightings in an unlikely place this week when Dust Networks, a Berkeley-based company, launched SmartMesh, a networking solution for sensors.
Up until now, every time I've read about mesh--and I've been reading about it for years--it was always talked about in the context of IEEE 802.11x technology. Data would hop from user notebook to user notebook or even to access points installed along the highway or integrated into vehicles until it reached its final destination.
At the risk of getting hate email, I must say that I always found the idea interesting but somewhat fanciful.
However, along comes Dust Networks. Its co-founder and CTO Kris Pister is credited for coining the name "Smart Dust." Co-founder Rob Conant is vice president of business development.
SmartDust as originally conceived were tiny sensors that would be used to monitor and transmit data about the physical world. For example, in one experiment Pister says sensors were sprinkled in the desert and used to detect any movement across the sand.
But then Pister got really smart and saw that there were already millions of wired sensors deployed around the globe for enterprise-class monitoring and control.
For example, there are sensors that measure temperature, fluid flow, gasses, air quality, vibrations in motors, and lighting. You name it and there is a sensor measuring it.
The good news for Pister was these sensors were going wireless.
Honeywell is one of the leaders in this creating wireless versions of their industrial strength sensors, and thereby saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in the cost of wiring them to the network and or in sending out field technicians to take scheduled readings.
What Dust Networks is, is a wireless networking solution that uses mesh technology to transmit the data from node to node, in this case sensor to sensor, to its final destination, usually an application in the operations center.
Each sensor would have to have Dust Network battery-powered SmartMessh technology built in. Think of it as a micro-NIC. Each sensor has its own MAC address so the point of origin of the data being transmitted is known.
As Pister told me, mesh is the only way to use low power to get the data to the final application. If a node goes down the mesh network re-optimizes itself to find a different path.
The lesson here is that fanciful ideas, like mesh networks for WiFi, will remain such until people like Pister and Conant discover that the idea incorporates a practical solution to a real world problem.
Posted by Ephraim. Schwartz on September 23, 2004 02:13 PM
September 22, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Get your free Java application server
JBoss this week began shipping a J2EE 1.4-certified open source Java application server, with anyone able to get it for free. Whether they want to pay support costs is up to them.
Other free Java application server offerings also are available or planned, such as Jonas. Meanwhile, Sun has been including a lower-end version of its application server within the Solaris operating environment.
International Data Corp., in a recent study of the application server market, said JBoss already has changed market dynamics. Although just certified under J2EE, the company has been a player in the market with previous releases of its product.
So I have to wonder: if an application server can be acquired for free and is becoming a commodity, what happens to commercial application servers from companies such as BEA Systems and IBM?
While these companies can argue that users are getting something more for their money, the prospect of free software has to be enticing. Just ask Linux converts.
What will be the fate of these products or even vendors like BEA, which has shown up on Oracle chief Larry Ellison's acquisition wish list?
Worldwide and North American application server revenues were classified as flat for 2003 when compared to 2002, according to the IDC study. It will be interesting to see how much of a commercial application server market there is in a few years or what shape that market takes.
Posted by Paul Krill on September 22, 2004 01:15 PM
September 21, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Woody's words to live by (or Carly shows up)
Before he became fodder for the tabloids, Woody Allen used to say some pretty profound things. One of those words of wisdom was: "Ninety percent of life is just showing up." Sounds simple, but the truth is, it is far from it.
Last week, I showed up for Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks user and reseller meeting in Houston. HP's storage group had taken it on the chin lately with less than stellar results. As a result, there was a little Missouri in the air. In other words, some users wanted HP to show them a little something. One user told me he wanted to see if HP could bring some of the same innovation to storage that he used to see out of Compaq.
The opening ceremonies were full of plenty of the typical rah-rah typical of these types of events. But the event did include Carly Fiorina, HP's sometimes embattled CEO. She spoke clearly and talked as if she happened down to the storage labs at HP one day and they told her about HP's Grid plans and she said, "Let's do it."
A little later, HP officials showed a clip from Crocodile Dundee. It was the scene when thugs attempt to rob Dundee with a small switchblade and Dundee says the words, "That's not a knife. This is a knife," as he wields a large Bowie-like blade. That, HP officials said, was their best illustration of how much better one of their products is than that of a competitor. Obviously, there was plenty of bragging, which is pretty easy to do when you're throwing your own party.
I spoke to several users and resellers last week and plenty were jazzed about the new technology. But one fact stood out for them more than any other: the fact that Fiorina showed up. That, more than jazzy new technology or future roadmaps, seemed to reassure many of the users and resellers. Proof, once again, that Woody Allen used to be more the wise man than the fool.
- Bob Francis (bob_francis@infoworld.com)
Posted by Jack McCarthy on September 21, 2004 04:34 PM
September 17, 2004 | Comments: (0)
A new feature in WebEx's latest Web conferencing service has reporters and PowerPoint victims of all stripe a little nervous. The service being announced Monday, WebEx Sales Center, includes an Attention Indicator feature that can notify conference presenters when a meeting attendee has opened another application over the presentation. The idea, according to Praful Shah of WebEx, is to "keep the prospect engaged throughout the sales call."
During my briefing with WebEx this week I had the opportunity to see the Attention Indicator send up a flag next to my name. Of course, I had left the PowerPoint presentation unwillingly in order to take notes in Microsoft Word.
Although I can see how it would be useful for sales teams to know if a sales pitch is falling flat, I find it a bit invasive that the WebEx service can detect my whereabouts during a presentation. To protect security, WebEx can't tell which application you've opened over the presentation, only that you are not fully focused on the Web conference. Hopefully WebEx's next service won't include keyboard heat sensors able to detect my feelings through temperature readings on my fingertips.
Posted by Cathleen Moore on September 17, 2004 04:35 PM
September 16, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Are RFID standards immune to economic interests?
In doing research for a column on RFID standards, coming up on September 27th, I had an interesting conversation with Edward Zeng, chairman and CEO of SparkiceLab, a company helping to create China's National Product Codes.
NPCs are like EPCs, electronic product codes, that govern what content, product identification information, resides in each RFID tag.
The difference is that NPC content includes what China wants in the tag and the EPC includes the content that the EPCGlobal organization wants.
It's hard to gauge exactly where Zeng is coming from considering the fact that he does sit on at least one Chinese government committee working out the details of NPC and more widely, how China will deal with whatever standards are set by EPCGlobal. But he also has a for-profit company that is licensed by the Chinese government to issue NPC codes for any company importing or exporting from China.
However, it is also hard to figure out where EPCGlobal is coming from.
EPCGlobal is a joint venture of the Uniform Code Council, UCC, started at MIT as the Auto-ID Center and then turned into an independent entity, and the European-based EAN International.
The question here is, is the mostly Western-based organization pure at heart or are they creating standards that will suit them best?
Zeng feels strongly that EPCGLobal has not included China, and other major Asian manufacturing countries such as Japan, Korea and Malyasia, in helping to set the standards. While EPCGlobal says anybody can join, Zeng believes that's a lot different than being expressly sought out for participation.
Zeng uses some interesting statistics from the cell phone industry to illustrate why China should be included in any decision on RFID standards.
Five years ago, China had 8% of the world's cell phone subscribers while the U.S. had 37%. Today, China has 24% of the market with almost 300,000 million subscribers, more than the entire population of the U.S., while the U.S. now has 14% of the world's subscribers.
Don't leave us out, is his message.
A point well taken. I'd like to know what you think. Send me an email, eph-raim_schwartz@infoworld.com
Posted by Ephraim. Schwartz on September 16, 2004 11:21 AM
September 15, 2004 | Comments: (0)
(Turn and face the strain) Software changes
Borland Software this week stood atop its soapbox preaching the evils of software projects gone awry, with projects beset by issues such as last-minute changes and differing perspectives on the potential success of development efforts.
To stem the tide of botched projects, Borland pitched its Software Delivery Optimization strategy, or SDO, which is not to be confused with Service Data Objects, or SDO. Borland's SDO is about building a disciplined process for conducting software projects and unifying the business, development and IT operations of an enterprise. SDO focuses on five key points: applicability, efficiency, potency, predictability and quality in software. The initial product effort around SDO involves Borland's CaliberRM requirements management system, the Together modeling tool, StarTeam configuration management, Optimizeit performance testing and JBuilder Java IDE.
Is Borland onto something here with its software projects sermon? Well, a Microsoft official at the BorCon conference in San Jose, Calif. this week echoed concerns about software projects beset with constantly changing feature requirements. Microsoft is getting into the project management game with its upcoming Visual Studio Team System package. IBM for its part is looking to help teams of developers work together better with the upcoming Atlantic tools release. Borland and other companies that tackle the issue of software project management could be doing developers and enterprises a great service. The company may indeed have tapped into the next big trend in software development.
By Paul Krill
Posted by Jack McCarthy on September 15, 2004 11:05 AM
September 14, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Speeding desktop apps the Sproqit way
In early October Sproqit Technologies will roll out what that small Bellevue, Wash.-based company believes will be the speediest embedded thin client solution for controlling desktop applications remotely, according to sources.
More specifically, the company, founded four years ago by former Microsofties, will target the embeddable solution at Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client on PDAs and smart phones. The Sproqit product reportedly allows end users to access applications residing on their work PCs by transforming their PDAs and Smart phones into more fully featured "desktop remote controls."
The upcoming product also features capabilities such as interactive streaming data, online and offline functions and end-to-end security.
(I posted this for Ed Scannell; ed_scannell@infoworld.com.)
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 14, 2004 12:26 PM
September 13, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Taking the Olympic dive with storage
Rarely do team diving and storage hardware converge, but they did for me, InfoWorld's new storage reporter. When BlueArc, a manufacturer of
high-end storage systems, offered an interview with one of their customers - namely NBC's Olympics coverage unit - I jumped - or should I say "dived" at it. I spoke to Phil Paully, director of graphics engineering and operations for NBC Olympics. He has five Olympics under his belt for NBC and helps build the data center for each Olympics.
BlueArc put me on to Phil, as their SiliconServer storage systems were used to store the graphic and video elements of the live and taped broadcasts of the Athens games. Paully's group also supplied that information to other network partners, such as Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemnundo and the USA Network. All told, his group supplied more than 1,200 hours of coverage, three times the coverage of the Olympic Games in Sydney. Whenever you saw the name of an Olympic athlete or a set of scores flash on the screen, chances are Phil's group was responsible. Sometimes it was that minute data that made me stick with a sport. such as team diving. I had never heard of the sport even though I had become a good swimmer in college and was surprised to learn, via graphics, that most of the team diving athletes around the world train in nearby Houston. Who knew?
Even though this traveling Olympic data center changes technology every two years, it worked like a charm this year, Phil said. When I spoke to him in Athens the games were nearly over, but he was clearly enthused about how the technology was meeting the challenge. "It always gets better. We've been moving toward PCs and Macs and Gigabit networks to lower our costs and every time we do this it gets better," he said.
But the challenges in the future will be even greater as future Olympic games will be broadcast in the more demanding high-definition television (HDTV) format. "That will increase our storage demands by a factor of two, at least," he said.
Though this is Paully's fifth tour of duty with NBC Olympics, he remains a fan of the games. This time out the data center was located near the track and field stadium, so Paully got to see a few events in person. "You've got to see it and feel it in person, because it helps you understand the feeling you want to convey on the broadcast," he said. It looks like Paully and his crew did a good job, as NBC’s Olympics ratings scored well with viewers. I know I was hooked. Who knew I could be so enthralled by team diving?
Bob Francis
Posted by Jack McCarthy on September 13, 2004 03:27 PM
September 10, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Say more than cheese: Innovative uses of camera phones
Camera phones thus far have been little more than a consumer toy. Here at DemoMobile 2004 in San Diego a few companies offered up some interesting ways to leverage camera phones for things like marketing and mobile blogging.
Digimarc, an established vendor in the digital watermarking space, is applying its technology to let camera phones read embedded watermarks from print. The idea, according to Doug Pollack, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Digimarc, is to turn each piece of paper into a hyperlink connecting print to the digital world.
Through a client on the phone and linking and tracking data imperceptibly embedded in an image or document, Digimarc Mobile lets a user photograph an image to navigate directly to a piece of content on the Web.
"Digimarc Mobile lets people avoid one of the most frustrating aspects of working with a mobile phone on the Web, which is navigating to a particular piece of content," he said.
One potential use of the Digimarc technology is to speed the mobile purchase process in the catalog industry, letting shoppers for example click on a sweater image in a print catalog and purchase it directly through the cell phone without dialing an 800 number, speaking to a sales rep, or waiting to go home to their desktop system. The company also showed the technology used in a print advertising campaign, embedding data in the ad that guides users to specific information on the Web.
Another vendor here at the show, BellStream, demonstrated a mobile blogging tool that includes built-in camera support features. The company said it wants to make mobile blogging more like the desktop blogging experience. The Blogia publishing tool works on Symbian smart phones and is compatible with most blogging services. The interface is clean, and offers more features than most mobile blogging tools, letting users create a new post, edit a post, snap and embed pictures, change preferences, and blog via voice.
Posted by Cathleen Moore on September 10, 2004 11:39 AM
September 09, 2004 | Comments: (0)
In doing a story on Oracle's upcoming release of E-Business Suite 11i.10 which has 2,100 new features across hundreds of applications, Jonathan Colehower, vice president of Supply Chain applications surprised me with his blunt warning to enterprise IT.
Basically Colehower warned companies not to customize. If they do,
implementations of upgrades will be much more difficult. He even suggested that while companies may think their unique business processes are a competitive advantage, business managers should abandon that idea and change their business processes to work with what is standard with the Oracle application.
In turning to an industry analyst, Josh Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise
Applications Consulting I expected him to tell me that this was typical Oracle hubris and that companies need to customize.
Greenbaum surprised me, too.
"You have to give them credit for being brutally honest," Greenbaum told me.
Greenbaum went on to say that Oracle is right. The biggest and often most
unnecessary headaches come from modifying software simply for the sake of putting your own stamp on the product. Not a good idea.
But there seems to be two uniquely opposing forces going on in the industry. On the one hand we appear to be entering into the age of packaged applications. If the garment industry calls it RTW, ready-to-wear, high tech might call it RTR, ready-to-run.
On the other hand, we have Web services and service oriented architectures that use out-of-the-box components to create custom applications.
Go figure.
Posted by Ephraim. Schwartz on September 9, 2004 11:36 AM
September 03, 2004 | Comments: (0)
WPA2 [Wi-Fi Protected Access] products, both access points and client air cards, will soon be flooding the market.
This uses the Advanced Encryption Standard [AES] which is compliant with the FIPS140-2 government security requirements.
If you recall AES requires access points [APs] with faster processors in order to handle the higher level of encryption. Client cards must also be upgraded for AES.
Although backward compatibility between the older WPA standard and the WPA2 standard is assured by the IEEE specs, the Wi-Fi Alliance will be certifying for interoperability between vendor devices for months to come.
Bear in mind that if you deploy a mixture of WPA2 and WPA access points in a single building, the system may force you to reauthenticate with the network as you roam from one technology to the other. It depends on the kind of authentication requirements in place at your company.
WPA2 is the marketing friendly designation for IEEE 802.11i standard.
Posted by Ephraim. Schwartz on September 3, 2004 11:00 AM
September 01, 2004 | Comments: (0)
It seems like the more work that is done to simplify Web services standardization, the more confusing it gets.
Web services is supposed to provide for easy communications between systems based on a set of industry-standard technologies. But the plethora of standards proposed for Web services is a bit hard to follow.
This week, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Computer Associates got behind the Microsoft-driven WS-Eventing specification supporting publish-and-subscribe Web services functionality. But IBM still touts its own rival WS-Notification specs as its preferred route while saying the company will enable interoperability with WS-Eventing.
IBM wrote, "WS-Eventing specification provides similar functionality to that of WS-BaseNotification. WS-BaseNotification is one of the WS-Notification specifications that were submitted to an OASIS [technical committee] in April 2004."
Following all this is enough to make your head spin, with Web services specifications, sometimes redundant, competing ones, proposed to resolve issues such as addressing, management, publish-and-subscribe events, security and business process orchestration. Perhaps the most famous ones were the dueling Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) specification proposed by Microsoft and IBM and the Web Services Choreography Interfaces (WSCI) proposal from Sun. BEA Systems was involved in both proposals. (BPEL appears to have won the battle).
Just look at the front page of the OASIS Web site and you will find listed many Web services standardization proposals, including Web Services for Remote Portlets, Web Services Reliable Messaging, Web Services Notification, Web Services Distributed Management, etc.
There must be a way to simplify all this because it surely is going to be a tough task for vendors and enterprises to support all this complexity in the name of simplicity
Posted by Paul Krill on September 1, 2004 11:57 AM
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