NYTimes.com Article: Some I.B.M. Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain

[Adam L. Beberg]

> The potential new uses, made possible by software, are being called Web
> services. The industry sees Web services as an important new avenue of
> growth. Major companies including I.B.M., Microsoft and others are eager
> to develop the new business, and they are all trying to woo developers
> to their respective camps.

Of course, all FoRKers are smart and see the obvious flaws in the whole web
services thing, and open source ones at that, oy! Remember web dating
services, and web directory services, and web IM services, and web shopping
services. Billions of dollars made there, oh wait...

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com