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Gillen pointed out that Microsoft has some time to catch up technologywise while the de facto Web-services standards are maturing. Analysts agreed that Microsoft appears to have thought out its Web-services strategy more than the other vendors. And at the very least, Microsoft has done the most evangelizing on the subject. Some of Microsoft's competitors suggest that the Redmond, Wash., company's typical marketing blitzkrieg will benefit them as well as Microsoft.
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Web services enable software components to interact with each other around the world. In the past, this has only occasionally been realized within private networks using the industry standard CORBA and Microsoft's DCOM distributed component platforms. However, because Web services use protocols that are open and easier to implement, they have a better chance of being widely implemented.
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WSE 2.0 is the only shipping Microsoft Web services framework that supports the latest emerging specifications. WSE 2.0 ... provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web services framework, which is tied to HTTP. This session will introduce you to the new WSE 2.0 features and provide a drill-down on the new WSE 2.0 messaging APIs.
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[F]or the enterprises that have invested their fates in Microsoft infrastructure, how will they get their Web services? Will it be Yahoo! for the consumers, and Microsoft Live or the business folk? Or vice versa? Both, a mish-mash? Yikes!
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WSIL's stated goal is to identify best practices and develop common approaches that eliminate unnecessary complexity for customers and to provide a forum where open web services can be published, commented on, evaluated and integrations tested. Participants include: major vendors of learning management systems, including NetDimensions, Oracle, Plateau, Saba, SAP and SumTotal; providers of related systems such as Eedo, Giunti Labs, OutStart and Questionmark; leading technology firms IBM and Microsoft; and consulting firms such as BBN, Eduworks and Rustici.
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