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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wave-of-the-future dept.

Erik Sliman writes "Why are all the IT companies suddenly interested in open standards with web services? An OpenStandards.net article explores the issues surrounding the somewhat vague term."

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  1. Becuase of Stupidity of course by Telastyn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's becoming more and more common that the "Internet" is just Internet Explorer to most people. So some smart fellow thinks it'd be a grand idea if services could be served this way, to appease the lowest common denominator. PHB's get ahold of it, and wham! off it goes to the media, and in 2-3 years everyone (hopefully) realises what a bad idea it was.

    If you want a unified 'client' for all services, make one, don't kludge everything onto http. Please...

  2. That's what happening by wiredog · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Well, sort of. The PHB's are realizing that web browsers aren't the best way to do web services/web applications and are looking for a better one.

    The problem is that everyone has a web browser. Anything that aims to replace it has to get high distribution at low cost. You want all your customers to have whatever client you use. And it has to be based on a standard so that even if the customers client isn't exactly what you have, it's close enough.

    And this is in a world where it can be difficult to get IE and Mozilla to play nicely together.

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  3. Microsoft blames hype for .net woes by terrymr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Microsoft is blaming industry hype for the general lack of consumer interest in .net services. Their decision to delay the launch of My Services was apparently because of some kind of consumer backlash against over-hyped web services. read the register article

  4. Shameless Self-Promotion by cybermage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey Erik, nice ad:

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    1. Re:Shameless Self-Promotion by cybermage · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Why do a WHOIS? Erik's name is on the byline.

      OpenStandards was /.ed at the time. Also, I think there's are degrees of shamelessness. It's one thing to submit a story you've found someplace and think others might like. It's a bit shameless to submit a story about an article you wrote that another site posted. It's the epitamy of shameless to submit a story you wrote that is posted on a site you own.

      I posted the whois information so that everyone could see just how little research /. needed to do to know that the submitted story was just an Ad.

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  5. Re:Marketing Hype = More $$$ by rylos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree that the hype is heavy for Web Services. However, I do see benefits for using Web Services.

    Making Web Services work in a useful way sometimes takes some creativity. Take Google as an example. With the recent release of the Google API, I was able to use PHP and SOAP to access their search results. One of the methods offered through the service is spell checking. By integrating this spell checking with my company's internal search engine, I now have the ability to make search term suggestions to users. This functionality would be very difficult to provide if it had to be created from scratch.

    Web Services will NOT work for all things and in all situations, but they WILL work for some things and in some situations. Creativity is the key.