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Story: Have we lost sight of what Web services are meant to do?

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Let's not kid ourselves about Web services and their potential, but let's also not lose sight of the fact most businesses are still asking what are 'web services'?

For technically illiterate managers, they're nothing more than EDI systems of yesterday dressed up in a new terminology. Unless someone can demonstrate, in a capable and coherent way what web services actually are, do and offer, businesses what know what they mean.

Whilst the IT profession pushes on, the meaning of web services becomes more and more diffuse. Neither Microsoft nor IBM can agree on a single standard definition in their corporate literature, and over-emphasise on the jargon far too much.

Yes, we've lost sight of what they're meant to do, and what the vendors say they can do.

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