Dr. Ashish Deshpande, CTO and cofounder of Metaserver, is a leading authority on the business process integration space and has more than 15 years of experience with B2B technology, network computing, and distributed parallel processing. He holds a PhD in computer science from Yale University, an MS in computer science from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor of technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay.
The Web has always been service-oriented. Services such as auctions or
ticket-buying services are available today to general Web users. Essentially,
what the Web did for interactions between business functions and their users,
Web services will do for interactions between functions spread out across
multiple business units or even across multiple businesses.
Because of this, a number of organizations are trying to design and build a
Web service-oriented architecture (WSOA). The good news is that most of them
are already on the right path to getting there. This next wave of application
development is a natural extension of the move toward component-based
standards such as J2EE and COM. Web services are unique in that they rely
entirely on Internet-standard technologies. (Note: Web services rely on
existing standards such as XML messaging [SOAP], Internet standard tran... (more)
Dr. Ashish Deshpande, CTO and cofounder of Metaserver, is a leading 
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