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On Moving Toward Software Rentals

Posted by timothy on from the free-software-sidesteps-this dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article about the emergence of a service-oriented model of software delivery, supported by the W3C, IBM, HP, and Microsoft. They already have their acronyms down: WSDL (Web Services Description Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), and WSFL (Web Services Flow Language). The article primarily covers the three phases of negotiating, ending with actual service delivery."

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  1. Re:Digital medium is NEVER secure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sad, but true.

    That's why I always refer to the Mozilla suite as "fucking gay communist bullshit", especially when one of my employees suggests to use it sitewide. I mean, Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols, so why change it? I credit the efforts of the former Netscape employees who really try to use their time of unemployment to create something useful, but they just keep on missing the needs of their target audience. Perhaps Netscape could provide them with their newest code instead of letting them just reuse their obsolete Netscape 4.x code. Who knows.

    This leaves us waiting for Windows Longhorn.