Web Services and the New IT Paradigm

Posted March 31, 2002 | Leadership |

Web services are facing an identity crisis. Burdened with the misleading "Web services" moniker and discussed primarily in technical circles, the business world doesn't know what to make of the concept. Are Web services little more than an incremental, evolutionary improvement in systems integration techniques, or do they truly mark a revolutionary paradigm shift in the application of information technology?

About The Author
Jason Bloomberg
Jason Bloomberg is Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb, where he drives the message and the community for EnterpriseWeb's next-generation enterprise platform. He is a global thought leader in the areas of cloud computing, enterprise architecture, and service-oriented architecture. He is a frequent conference speaker and prolific writer, and he also serves as blogger for DevX. His latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing… Read More
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