Liberty Alliance vs. WS-I; J2EE vs. .NET; Overwhelmed .YET?
Part 1: Latest Announcements
P.J. Jakovljevic - March 20, 2002

Event Summary

February appeared to be the month in which Web Services earned notable legitimacy. Recently, <b>IBM</b> and <b>Microsoft</b>, the two largest proponents of Web Services, and a slew of other prominent IT companies and enterprises (<b>Accenture</b>, <b>BEA Systems</b>, <b>Hewlett-Packard</b>, <b>Fujitsu</b>, <b>Intel</b>, <b>Oracle</b>, and <b>SAP</b> to name some) have joined to form the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I, <a href="http://www.ws-i.com/" target="_blank"><b>www.ws-i.com</b></a>). The organization's goal is to work with other standards groups like, inter alia, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) to make sure standards from one version of Web services development tools will be compatible with the next.<br>&nbsp; <br> <font color="#336699">This is <b>Part 1</b> of a two-part event note discussing the standardization of Web Services.<br>&nbsp; <br> <b>Part 2</b> continues the discussion and makes User Recommendations.</font>..