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Here we deal with all the technology aspects of the distribution of the computing effort over a network of processors.

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Web Services: Floor Wax or Dessert Topping?
- by Barbara Angius Saxby (November 27, 2002)
Despite the hype, Web services will not solve all your needs.

Web Services Won't Take Off Yet
- by Maggie Williams (November 22, 2002)
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it might be years before Web services live up to their full potential.

Ask Not If You Are Ready for Web Services
- by Carol Hildebrand (October 14, 2002)
Instead, ask: "Are Web services ready for me?"

Portals and Web Services
- by Chris Harris-Jones (October 1, 2002)
Do web services really hold out the possibility of easy and seamless integration of applications and content into portal software?

Web Services: Still Not Ready for Prime Time
- by Ben Worthen (September 1, 2002)
This article cuts through the hype and gets real about what Web services can and cannot do.

Trio Pushes Web Services Specification
- by Edward J. Correia (September 1, 2002)
BEA Systems Inc., IBM and Microsoft have released BPEL4WS, or Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, an XML-based flow language that defines how complex business processes should connect and interact via Web services. This move has drawn howls of criticism from authors of similar specifications, including those under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium. Stay tuned, folks. This one might get ugly.

CRM Integration: Can Web Services Help?
- by Simon Yates (August 22, 2002)
Application vendors have not made cross-application integration any easier by erecting proprietary walls around their architectures. The solution may be Web services. Most of the major application vendors are already getting behind core Web service standards, such as SOAP and WSDL.

Ready or Not, Here Come Web Services
- by META Group (August 15, 2002)
Web services' potential value is too high for organizations to permit infrastructure and operational groups to block their use by the business. However, the good folks in IT should explain various process impacts, true costs, potential operational risks, dependencies on other businesses, security and other exposures to the business leaders, then let them decide if the rewards are greater than the risks.

Web Services: What Lies Beneath
- by Chris Horak (February 11, 2002)
Web services offer a quick, pragmatic approach to implementing distributed business and application processing needs based on Internet standards, particularly XML.



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