Another analyst firm, ZapThink, which reports exclusively on Web services and XML, offered its own views of the roadblocks to Web services adoption in the article "2002 Retrospective and Thinking Ahead." According to the article, "IT organisations realise that they have to overcome critical security and management challenges before their Web services implementations would meet broad enterprise needs." ZapThink also identified other roadblocks to the successful adoption of Web services, including:
- Transactions
- Registry solutions
- Web service orchestration
- Workflow solutions
A final perspective on Web services comes from Gartner Dataquest in a press release titled "Survey Identifies the Leading Web Services Products that Systems Integrators Plan to Support in 2003." In the release, Gartner Dataquest provides some extracts from the results of a September 2002 Internet survey of 44 consulting and systems integration vendors in North America:
- Microsoft .Net was targeted by 58 percent of system integrators as one of the top three Web services products to ramp up delivery capability.
- Forty percent selected IBM Websphere.
- Thirty-one percent cited Oracle.
- Thirty-three percent of end users that are working with systems integrators are planning to use Microsoft .Net.
- Thirty-nine percent plan to use Java/J2EE.
- Smaller companies tended to favor Microsoft .Net and large companies tended to favor J2EE architectures and products.
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