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Simon Phipps's personal commentary

The sort of comment that this analyst from Ovum makes really annoys me for its shallowness. His assertion is that Microsoft is "way ahead in Web services" is based on the fact that Microsoft has lots of tools for doing what they define as Web services, and that he in the UK is able to easily get hold of these tools. When I define a term as "what I do best" it is hardly surprising to find that I will be the one doing it best, and right now that's the level of his discussion. But there are other, more objective measures. I'll not assert (this time, anyway) that MSFT is either ahead, behind or level on Web services, but a definition that excludes enterprise openness and choice, transactionality, content-level interoperability and pretty much any other criterion apart from availability of tools for hacking is flawed and tiresome.

posted at 1:07 PM (UK) | |