Gregg, I don't think it is fair just to blame Microsoft (although a couple of years ago one of my techy friends remarked that MS pushed WS as a means of selling .NET). IBM, BEA et al. were not slow to climb on the WS bandwagon.
As for someone remarking on the ubiquity of HTTP as a protocol, perhaps this had something to do with its pre-application use ubiquity. Gervas --- In [email protected], Gregg Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Newcomer wrote: > > The fact that all major vendors support Web services > > is therefore remarkable and an important > > consideration, as Anne has noted. This could as > > easily not have happened as it did, for example CORBA > > and DCE. > > You're right, there are not many technical reasons behind why WS-* is "everywhere". > > The primary reason that I see why most vendors do/will support WS is because > they are just jumping on the Microsoft bandwagon. They think that if they > aren't prepared to play in the Microsoft world, they'll not be a part of the > "wave". This is very much the Lemmings game that Microsoft is great at leading > software vendors into playing. Follow Microsoft and you'll always be behind > their intended goal, and always be spending monies playing the catchup game. > > It's a sad story, but interesting to watch happen over and over and over. > > Gregg Wonderly > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
