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Simon Phipps's personal commentary

Now with Added Snake Oil [WebTech]

An enigma for you. IDC say (cited by Internet News):

However, the road to establishing Web services will be a long one, according to a report by analyst firm IDC that said the ultimate promise of Web services is still at least 10 years away

and yet we also hear that large numbers of people claim to be using Web services. Pointing this out is seen by the Web services hype-mongers as a sign you "don't get it". But now a new report from Jupiter Research suggests a resolution to the enigma of how this can be. The reason:

"Web services" is a term that can be defined so broadly, and often vaguely, that is in danger of losing relevance, according to analysis from Jupiter Research (a unit of this site's corporate parent), which could be the reason why 82 percent of surveyed executives claim they are using the technology in some capacity.

That would be why it's so hard to find any real solutions that actually deploy SOAP/WSDL for anything beyond demos, coolness and proof-of-concept-scale projects. As I have been saying for some time, we're going to have nothing but confusion until we define terms well enough for people to describe their solutions accurately.

posted at 3:32 PM (UK) | |