IBM donates B2B technology to Apache

Lev_Arris writes "According to this article on the Heise newsticker (in German) IBM have donated their Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) implementation to the Apache project. SOAP was originally designed to help business 2 business communication take place between incompatible systems. (via XML) With this move, IBM again show their support for the most widely used webserver software after having integrated Apache into their WebSphere package two years ago. "