Web Services

Viewpoints Archive

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	2005	Download all 2005 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2005: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2006
November -		Verizon and Sabre: Service-Oriented Architecture in Practice
October -		Recent Developments: Oracle's Acquisition of Siebel Attracts a Mixed Response • The Economist (Almost) Predicts a Second Dot-Com Crash
September -		Software as a Service (ASPs Revisited)
August -		Aiming for the Middle: SAP and Oracle's Push to Create Enterprise Middleware Platforms
July -		Demystifying SOA
June -		The Enterprise-Service Bus Travels On
May -		Recent Developments: WS-Security and WS-Reliable Messaging Standards See Progress • Consolidation Continues: Adobe Buys Macromedia • Oracle Acquires Oblix: Implications for SOA Management
April -		New Search Technologies and Web Services
March -		eLearning Software and Web Services
February -		From Component-Based Software to Web Services
*Prior to February 2005, the Web Services* technology area was Component-Based Software Engineering.**
	2004	Download all 2004 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2004: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2005
November -		Vodafone's 3G Launch: Implications for Web Services
October -		Recent Developments: Microsoft and IBM Clash over Web Services' Standards for System Management • Incresing Consumer Broadband Adoption Could Mean New Security Risks for Corporate IT Networks
September -		Open-Source Software
August -		The Rise of RSS
July -		Recent Developments: Oracle to Acquire Collaxa in Move to Strengthen Application-Server Software • Open Mobile Alliance Release of OMA Web Services 1.0 • Microsoft: Chained to the Desktop
June -		Microsoft and SAP Merger Discussions Imply Changes for Web Services and the Software Industry
May -		Web Services Market Estimates Recent Developments: Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0
April -		Web Services Technology Review
March -		Implications of Web Services Commercialization
February -		Where the Enterprise-Service Bus Is Going

	2003	Download all 2003 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2003: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2004
November -		Will Microsoft Office Replace the Web? Announcement: Next Generation Technologies
October -		Recent Developments: Sun Launches New Software Sales Strategy • UKCRC Sponsors Computing Research Project • Microsoft Settles Antitrust Class Action
September -		Enterprise Application Vendors Target the eLearning Market Recent Developments: Is the IT Venture-Capital Market in Recovery?
August -		Recent Developments: Standards Battles Slow Web-Services Progress • IT Budgets Go to Real-Time Enterprise Technologies
July -		Turmoil in the Enterprise Applications Market
June -		Amazon, Google, and the Future of Web Services
May -		Recent Developments: Outsourcing Props up the European IT Market • Grid Computing Makes Slow Progress
April -		The Debate for Licensing Software Engineers Continues
March -		Web Services, eLearning, and Hosted Applications
February -		Web Services: Areas to Monitor

	2002	Download Aug.–Dec. 2002 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2002: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2003
November -		Recent Developments: E-Commerce Defies Downturn • Web Services Need Reliable http
October -		Standards and Security Challenges for Web Services
September -		Recent Developments: Microsoft Exhibits at Linux Trade Show • Content-Management Software Sees Growth • IT Services Sector Slows Down
August -		Licensing 6.0
July -		Recent Develoments: Oracle Dismisses Web Services • Instant Messaging Pushes Forward but Is Held Back by Lack of Standards • Microsoft Will Publish Source Code
June -		Aspect-Oriented Programming Explorer Announcement
May -		Developments in Web Services: Microsoft's Change Strategy and Politics Hit Interoperability Consortium
April -		Recent Developments: The Slow Road to Recovery • Web Services Understanding: "Poor" • Utility-Pricing Models
March -		Learning Objects
February -		Agents, Web Services, and the Semantic Web

	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		Software Components and Digital Rights Management
October -		Grid Computing
September -		HP and Compaq: Will They Make Boxes or Deliver Services?
August -		Aligning Softwre and Business Strategy: Flexibility, Speed, Connectivity
July -		Microsoft to Become Internet Monopoly?
June -		Web Services: Next-Generation Software Components
May -		Recent Developments: Larry Ellison Predicts the Demise of Niche Enterprise Software Firms; Enterprise P2P Finds Early Adopters; Instant Messaging Comes to the Workplace
April -		The New Economy's Hard Fall
March -		A Web without People
February -		Peer-to-Peer Computing: Behind the Hype

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		Using IT
October -		Recent Developments: Pervasive Computing Edges into the Commercial Marketplace; Companies Are Investing Blindly in IT
September -		Community Computation
August -		Reinventing Microsoft
July -		Collaborative Commerce and Beyond
June -		Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
May -		E-Business Is Not a Differentiater; Career Networks
April -		ASPs: One Year Later
March -		WAP Software
February -		Y2K OK

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
November -		Another SAP
October -		The Evolving IT Function
September -		Overcoming the Skills Crisis
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
*Before August 1999, the Explorer service was called TechMonitoring, and Viewpoints* were TechLinks.**
July -		Beyond Components
June -		XML Adds Knowledge to the Internet
May -		Application Servers: What Are You Really Buying?
April -		Organizational Change and Value for Money
March -		Application Hosting: The New Internet Business

	Prior to February 2005, the Web Services technology area was Component-Based Software Engineering. The Component-Based Software Engineering area (which was introduced in March 1999) combined two previous technology areas: Computer-Aided Software Engineering and Object Oriented Technologies.
	*1996–Feb. 1999 Computer-Aided Software Engineering Viewpoints archive >>*
	*1996–Feb. 1999 Object Oriented Technologies Viewpoints archive >>*