Summer Reading. I finally had a chance to catch up on some of the backlog of web-services articles and papers on my desk. Here's a list of some of the goodies I found in the stack:
Intermediaries. A whitepaper from Primordial that suggests vertical hubs will replace the current crop of horizontal web-services network vendors.
Transactions. A thorough review of the technical issues surrounding transactions unders web services. Why ACID won't work, and an intro to the Business Transaction Protocol (BTP).
Break on Through. John Hagel and John Seely Brown's CEO's Guide to the New IT Strategy. Companies will soon buy their information technologies as services provided over the Internet rather than own and maintain their own hardware and software. (This is a superb 23-page PDF, which I assume portends Hagel's next book. Too many good quotes to list here.)
Where Will Web Services Be Deployed? More good Hagel. Don't forget Part Two. "Early adoption is proceeding along two parallel tracks. On one track, IT organizations are launching experiments with the implementation of Web services technology...The second track consists of business line executives facing real, near-term business issues - most commonly, these days, how to get more operating (expense and asset) savings quickly."
Specs Unite Partners. "Together, WSCI (Web Services Choreography Interface) and BPML (Business Process Modeling Language), introduced late last month, should provide business analysts and software engineers with a view of how business processes perform in various business-to-business scenarios." Also discusses IBM's Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) and Microsoft's XLANG. [Source: eWeek]
Matt Mower: I know nothing about Game Theory really so I Googled and found this site which has some good basic information. [Curiouser and curiouser!]
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