(April 21, 2003) - As enterprises apply service-oriented architecture principles to business process management and automation, they will find that 'Service-Oriented Process' solutions will supplant the need for today's integration solutions, concludes a report published by analyst fir...

(June 3, 2003) - Salesforce.com has just launched sforce, the salesforce.com client/service application development utility, and has announced strategic alliances with BEA Systems, Borland, Microsoft, and Sun. Sforce allows business application developers to use tools they already kno...

(January 10, 2002) - Web services, say two contributors to this month's Harvard Business Review, represent 'an entirely new approach to corporate information systems' in which 'the distinction between users and suppliers of Web services will fade.' The distinguished authors. John Hagel...

(February 12, 2002) ? A broad group of technology leaders have formed the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization (www.ws-i.org). This cross-industry initiative is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable Web services across a variety of platform...

(May 17, 2002) - IBM has just launched its 'Web services Demos', a collection of Web services examples built with IBM technologies on IBM developerWorks. The 'Web services Demos' collection demonstrates how Web services can be used in applications. Developers are provided with complete...

(July 16, 2002) -The Liberty Alliance Project has released its version 1.0 specifications, the first set of open federated network identity specifications from the cross-industry consortium. As the Liberty Alliance's first step in enabling an open federated network identity solution, t...

(August 8, 2002) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced it has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corp. related to its Passport authentication service. The agreement addresses security and privacy issues.

More than just a semantic quibble, the question of what truly is Web Services takes many twists and turns. Part of that is because there is no single standards body, so multiple overlapping standards can and do arise (for example, WSDL and UDDI definitely overlap in certain areas). Add...

(December 18, 2002) - Novell has extended its secure identity management expertise to a key Web services standard to help businesses more easily and confidently deploy Web services. Based on Novell's eDirectory, Novell Nsure UDDI Server bolsters security and simplifies management of We...

(February 3, 2003) - Two new software products have just been released from Swingtide, Inc. that help businesses understand and make diverse XML standards work together. QoB Lab and QoB Assistant counter the effects of 'XML service creep' - the uncontrolled way that XML is coming into ...

(March 20, 2003) - Through a commitment to show the future of technology and its possibilities for government, the Mayor's Office of Information Services welcomes a leader in Web services technology. Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and a respected industry commentat...

(April 30, 2003) - About 86 percent of enterprises that are using or planning to use a systems integrator through the beginning of 2004 for a Web services solution will use XML, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. According to the survey, internal integration with applications and ...

(June 16, 2003) - Although smart companies are using Web services to improve the way they do business, firms have even more to gain by changing the way they think about their infrastructure. According to a new Forrester Research, Inc. report, CIOs who adopt service-oriented architectur...

(January 11, 2002) - In an exclusive interview with the Web Services Journal News Desk, Microsoft group product manager Greg Leake is pulling no punches when he asserts his opposite number at IBM - in the interview we posted earlier - is 'misinformed' and that IBM was 'misrepresenting'...

(February 13, 2002) - It began last December when Tim Ewald, a principal scientist at component software think-tank DevelopMentor - and who specializes in the effective application of cutting-edge component technologies to the production of scalable distributed systems - teamed up wit...

JavaOne came early this year, with its new date of March as opposed to its traditional June venue. This appeared to catch both vendors and attendees by surprise, resulting in fewer announcements and a drop in overall attendance, aided and abetted by the dual religious holiday weeks of...

(May 31, 2002) - webMethods, Inc, the leading provider of integration software, has appointed Andrew Astor to the position of vice president, Enterprise Web Services. Astor will spearhead the continued development of webMethods‚ Enterprise Web Services strategy, determining marketplac...

(July 17, 2002) - Amazon.com has launched its first version of 'Amazon.com Web Services,' a platform for creating innovative Web solutions and services designed specifically for developers and Web site owners.

(August 9, 2002) - Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., and BEA Systems, Inc. have published specifications to collectively describe how to reliably define, create, and connect multiple business processes in a Web services environment. The three specifications are designed to help organizations...

(September 23, 2002) - Members of the OASIS standards consortium have formed a technical committee to facilitate distributed systems management over the Internet. The work of the new OASIS Management Protocol Technical Committee will enable businesses to manage their own Web services a...

(November 13, 2002) - To encourage feedback, the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group has made its Basic Profile Working Draft public. The WS-I Basic Profile Working Draft can be accessed at www.ws-i.org. The Basic Profile consists of implementation guidelines recommending how a set of co...

(February 11, 2003) - As systems integrators plan to build Web services delivery capabilities in the next year, Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle are the three leading Web services products they plan to support, according to a recent survey by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner,...

(March 27, 2003) - Mark Hapner, chief Web services strategist at Sun Microsystems, and Andy Astor, vice president of Enterprise Web Services at webMethods have been elected to the board of directors for the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). Sun and webMethods will joi...

(April 30, 2003) - The SCO Group has announced its SCOx strategy, a technology framework that will allow SCO, and its resellers and developers, to provide the benefits of Web services to small-to-medium businesses and branch offices. Using industry standards, such as XML, SOAP, and UDD...

(June 16, 2003) - In a survey recently commissioned by Actional Corporation, 93 percent of IT professionals at Fortune 2000 companies cite deploying Web services as a key IT initiative. The survey also found that more than 60 percent of all respondents plan to deploy a service-oriented...

I am writing about your article titled 'IBM Responds to Latest Microsoft Jabs at WebSphere 4.0.' In this article, you interview IBM's Stefan Van Overtveldt, program director, WebSphere Technical Marketing. In the interest of facts and truth, I would like to correct Mr. Van Overtveldt ...

(February 14, 2002) - The man who created the first server, Web browser, and the WWW in general - Tim Berners-Lee - was quick to respond to our story yesterday ('If Only Santa Had Listened To Those Web Services Experts...').

(April 10, 2002) - No one can predict the future accurately, far less the I-technology future. So it was perhaps a little surprising that U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly turned down a Microsoft Corporation objection this week to written testimony by Sun Microsystems’ Jonatha...

(June 3, 2002) - The Mind Electric's GLUE 3.0 beta is now available for download. GLUE is a fast, simple, comprehensive platform for creating Java applications using Web services, servlets, and JSP. GLUE 3.0 beta has a host of new features, including fully integrated support for Web se...

(July 18, 2002) -Novell, Inc. and SilverStream Software, Inc. have announced the completion of Novell's cash tender offer for the shares of common stock of SilverStream at a price of $9.00 per share.

IBM has just released two new technologies on its alphaWorks site (www.ibm.com/alphaworks) - the IBM Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Java Runtime (BPWS4J), and an updated version of the Web Services Toolkit (WSTK) for dynamic e-business, version 3.2. BPWS4J provide...

(November 13, 2002) - Microsoft and AmberPoint, Inc., are working together to produce a .NET release of AmberPoint Management Foundation, a comprehensive management solution for Web services. AmberPoint's .NET solution will deliver rich management capabilities to applications built us...

(December 18, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., along with BEA Systems Inc., RSA Security Inc., SAP AG and VeriSign Inc., have published a new set of advanced Web services specifications to help businesses share information securely between applications and organizations in a stan...

(February 10, 2003) - New wireless features in Oracle9i Application Server will make it the first and only integrated application server to support XHTML 2.0, the new W3C standard. The wireless features, scheduled to be available in a new Wireless Toolkit on the Oracle Technology Netwo...

Web services is one of the top 10 strategic technologies poised to mature in the next 18 to 36 months, according to Carl Claunch, vice president and director of research at Gartner. Although noting that Web services has been 'heavily hyped,' Claunch observed that Web services can give ...

(May 6, 2003) - Novell today announced plans to implement the emerging Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specification in a future release of its Novell exteNd Composer Process Manager, the business process manager that ships with Novell's Web application development product s...

(June 16, 2003) - Corporate portal developers and independent software vendors can test the interoperability of their Web-based content and applications on a hosted portal environment with the new Oracle Portal Verification Service. Powered by Oracle9i Application Server, it supports t...

The .NET architecture has yet to be fully released, but already a virus, called W32/Donut, has been targeted to .NET, indicating that virus writers have interest in the new framework. Originating in the Czech Republic, the virus is not considered a serious threat by Microsoft or by se...

(Scotts Valley, CA) - Borland Software Corporation has released Borland C++Builder 6 for rapid development of e-business applications with Web services support in a true C++ visual development environment. C++Builder 6 enables C++ developers, estimated at 2.6 million worldwide, to simp...