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[2004-10-26] Creating and Consuming a Web Service
One of the most powerful aspects of .NET is the ease with which one can create Web Services. A Web Service is an external interface provided by a Web site that can be called from other Web sites. For example, a financial company may make up to the minute stock quotes available via a Web Service for those who do their trading with that company. This information could be read from a Web page and displayed, or read from a stand-alone application on a customer's desktop computer.
[2004-10-26] Service Oriented Architecture: The Right Side Up
When technologies begin their ascent up the hype curve, typically there's a lot of opinions, confusion and nonsense. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is no different in this regard. I'd like to try and demystify the whole SOA world and debunk some of the myths that are being propagated about how SOA can and cannot help in solving real computing challenges.
[2004-10-26] Connecting Smart Devices on the Internet
The idea that by the year 200x there will be more smart devices on the Internet than people has become widely accepted. You can already see it if you look at the most integrated manufacturing facilities. Everything from the factory floor up is being connected using web technologies. If connecting a smart device can create substantial customer value and you do not do it, your competitors will. So the questions in many cases is not should I do it, but how should I do it?
[2004-10-20] Data-quality Web Services
DataLever released Instant SOA, "the shortest distance from data quality concept to web service."
[2004-10-20] SAP to Sponsor Web Services Edge 2005
SYS-CON Media announced further details of the "Application Server Shoot-Out" due to take place at its upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East -- International Web Services Conference & Expo, to be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, February 15-17, 2005.
[2004-10-12] Web Services-based APIs
Plumtree Software launched Web services-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Plumtree Collaboration and Search Server that will dramatically increase the speed and flexibility with which Plumtree customers can assemble composite applications.
[2004-10-08] Web Services Management from Microsoft, Dell, Intel...
AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems publish Web Services Management (WS-Management), a Web services specification that addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across their entire IT systems.
[2004-10-04] New Amazon Web Services
Two new services released by Amazon Web Services (AWS) significantly enhance the power of software developers and Web site owners to build innovative, revenue-generating applications.
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