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Amazon chief: Web Services ready for takeoff

Launched five years ago, Web Services business "is an investment," says CEO Jeff Bezos. Read more »

Microsoft hires IBM's chief architect

Ray Ozzie has appointed Donald Ferguson to spearhead platform development at the software giant Read more »

Standards body embraces Web services

The Object Management Group, a standards body, is taking steps to make its back-office software collaborate with newer Web services standards. Read more »

Web services breeds teamwork

Two international standards bodies have teamed up on a forum about Web services, in a bid to clarify what's really going on. Read more »

Web services: Beyond the hype

He still has a tough sell ahead but IBM's Bob Sutor has already collaborated with Microsoft and others to fashion the underlying plumbing necessary to turn his vision of Web services into reality. Read more »

Microsoft Web services plan targets Java

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Read more »

Taronga Zoo .NETting its menagerie

Behind the scenes at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, a small but determined group of IT specialists are working to use Web services to streamline the flow of many core business processes. Read more »

XML: Extremely critical or exhaustingly complex?

Could the myriad standards and specifications surrounding XML seriously discourage users in the short-term? Read more »

Language barriers may stifle Web future

The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »

Gates: XML and SOAs are the future

Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman. Read more »

Features (103)

How to design a service-oriented architecture using Web services

If you're a consultant preparing for the Web services revolution, this is the advice that will make you the architect and most trusted adviser on the project. Read more »

Examining two Web services architectures

Others take a more open approach between systems, applications, and people in an infrastructure. Read more »

Who will test your Web service clients?

One of the great promises of the Web services architecture is how it enables companies to build their own standard application programming interfaces (APIs) for everyone (and everything) that must integrate with their systems. Read more »

Implement the components of an SOA with Web services

Design and implement the components of your Web service using the benefits of SOA. Learn how to create services that not only meet business requirements, but that also provide a rich and strategic solution. Read more »

A new standard for global XML Web services

The proposed Global XML Web Services Architecture standard defines a new family of protocols that take SOAP and XML to the next level of interoperability. Read more »

W3C steps up Web services work

The Web's leading standards body is forging ahead with new Web services initiatives, putting out a new draft proposal and co-sponsoring an August meeting on security. Read more »

Take advantage of the benefits of loosely coupled Web services

Loosely coupled components can operate independently of each other with no problems. This is an excellent fit when designing Web services, where all components are not always available. Read more »

The Web services shell game

The process of adopting standards has become more about furthering the control of established software companies than about realising Web services promises. Read more »

ROI for Web services: Risk factors

Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects. Read more »

Web services: Messiah or mirage?

Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today. Read more »

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