| Title: Fellow, Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, Harvard Law School Academic Credentials: B.A., Mathematics, Tulane University; M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin
Near-universal agreement on the SOAP and WS-I interoperability specs endorsed by Microsoft, IBM, Sun, BEA Systems and others will enable direct connections between applications,a major advancement for the software industry, says David Chappell, owner of Chappell & Associates, a San Francisco-based consultancy. This unanimity "will create the same kind of connectivity among applications that TCP did for machines. SOAP is the TCP/IP of applications," Chappell adds.
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f you ask Dave Winer about Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), he's almost dismissive. "Oh, that was so long ago," he says.
The first SOAP development work may have been done in the early part of this century, but it's become a cornerstone of Web services interoperability. Winer may have moved on, but the rest of the industry is busily embracing the spec he helped launch,along with Don Box, now at Microsoft, and a few others.
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Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week For the week ending Feb. 10, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions. |
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Five Companies That Came To Win This Week For the week ending Feb. 10, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors |
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10 Challenges That HP Wants Partners To Tackle Right Now CRN speaks with HP's business unit chiefs to get a sense of where they'd like partners to focus in the coming year, as well as how CEO Meg Whitman is making a difference. |
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