Report

October 2002

Web Services Platform Shootout

Ted Schadler 		Web services require a new infrastructure to secure, manage, and orchestrate both messages and endpoints. Firms should start with a Web services platform from a winner like IBM or Microsoft.
by Ted Schadler with Charles Rutstein, Joseph Volpe

MARKET OVERVIEW
  • Web services interfaces fuel portals and customer links.
  • Infrastructure challenges like security and control loom.
ANALYSIS
  • Firms need a new layer of Web services infrastructure.
  • IBM and Microsoft have the best vision -- and products.
  • Plug platform gaps with infrastructure service specialists.
ACTION
  • Demand a standards commitment and road map.
  • Hedge specialist bets with extended courtships.
WHAT IT MEANS
  • The Web-services-standards slog will go on for two years.
  • The dark side of Web services is new developer skills.
 
Figures & Data
  • Figure 1.  Web Services Infrastructure In 2005
  • Figure 2.  The Web Services Infrastructure Difference
  • Figure 3.  Forrester Wave™: Web Services Platforms, Q3 '02
  • Figure 4.  Platform Vendors' And Infrastructure Specialists' Focus
   
RELATED MATERIAL 
  • Online Resources
  • Companies Interviewed For This Report
  • Related Research
 
GRAPEVINE
  • "Oracle implemented Apache SOAP." And that's a bad thing for Microsoft.
  • "Software architects should stop building the Taj Mahal and do some plumbing."
  • "Stop investing to increase switching costs."

 

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