and therefore ???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Document style web services
It may be old news, but its still true. Some of us are getting tired of
being made to jump through hoops to accommodate Microsoft.
"Anne Thomas
Manes" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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t> Subject: RE: Document style web
services
11/21/2002
05:01 PM
Please respond
to axis-user
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
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>
> 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
>
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