That's old news. Sun is now a member of WS-I. WS-I has added two new seats to the board, and there will be a vote in March to elect the new board members. Let's hope that Sun gets elected. http://www.aspnews.com/news/article/0,,4191_1488041,00.html
Anne > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Document style web services > > > Anne Thomas Manes wrote: > > >WS-I has just published its Basic Profile > >draft, which only supports document-style. Pretty much every > SOAP vendor is > >involved with WS-I, so it won't be long before all SOAP implementations > >generate document style by default. > > > I think WS-I has serious credibility problems, especially since it came > out that Microsoft's participation was conditional on Sun being excluded > from a major role in the organization. To quote from a Bill Gates memo > in reference to WS-I which was made public during the antitrust trial > (as reported in http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t288-s2110205,00.html, > for one source): "I can live with this if we have the positioning > clearly in our favour. In particular, Sun not being one of the > movers/announcers/founding members." I'm sure that, as a participant in > WS-I, you're familiar with these issues, Anne. This credibility problem > is certainly going to influence how WS-I proposals are treated by the > industry. > > If Sun becomes a full coequal participant in the WS-I organization it'll > go a long way toward establishing WS-I as a bona fide forum for > supporting interoperability. Given Sun's ownership of Java and control > over Java standards it's hard to take an organization that excludes Sun > seriously on these issues. > > - Dennis > > > >
