Microsoft has placed a heavier bet on this than anyone else. O'Kelly went on to say. Other vendors have put their weight behind it, but none as much as Microsoft. Brazil has been under development for two years and was only recently announced - which makes Sun the last major vendor to publicize its Web services strategy. Oracle announced its strategy near the end of 2000, reports InfoWorld.
Some vendors claim the industry has already started to build Web services.
The things that come next are the products that support those. These true standards already have backing from the Cambridge, Mass.-based World Wide Web Consortium standards body so it is important for vendors to support these standards. As long as each vendor supports and complies with the given standards, all Web services should be able to interact with each other. There is room for interpretation in the standards that will probably lead to glitches at the beginning. All Rights Reserved.