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This week The Gang starts by taking on web services and service-oriented architectures, or as some now call them, "services fabrics." (Customers are saying that web services are low-value, but on a scale of 1-10, SOAs get 8-9.)
What's the advantage to vendors if SOAs commoditize IT? How will vendors make money in a world of open source, web services, and SOAs? Can BEA build a $3 billion business from a $1 billion business while competing against free application servers? Are we still in a customer-in-charge economy or has consolidation among their ranks shifted power back to the vendors? And which vendors really get it? IBM? BEA? Microsoft? SAP?
Web services promised best-of-breed integration, particularly when portals were all the rage. So why are the major vendors again pushing suites?
What about messaging? Is it a standalone service or will it become part of the infrastructure like TCP/IP? What will happen to commercial messaging products?
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