Mani Chandy, Ph.D., is chief scientist and cofounder of iSpheres Corporation (www.ispheres.com), a pioneer of meta application frameworks which enable companies to manage business in real-time. A renowned authority on distributed computing, Dr. Chandy is Simon Ramo professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Web services offer a widely-accepted standardized frame-work for objects to
discover and interact with each other using ubiquitous technologies: XML over
HTTP. This article is about bridging two "divides" in discussions of Web
services in the press and newsgroups. The first divide is one of perception:
ubiquitous services offer radically new ways of thinking about distributed
systems, whereas much of the discussion today is about limited incremental
steps from today's Web-page technology. The second divide is economic and
social: some companies have the resources and the desire to adopt Web
services rapidly while others do not. This article explores solutions to
cross both divides.
Web Services: Radical Technologies or Incremental Steps?
The initial adoption of a new technology is often incremental. The first cars
looked like horse-drawn buggies. The massive impact o... (more)
Mani Chandy, Ph.D., is chief scientist and cofounder of iSpheres Corporation (www.ispheres.com), a pioneer of meta application frameworks which enable companies to manage business in real-time. A renowned authority on distributed computing, Dr. Chandy is Simon Ramo professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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