----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Sosnoski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Satyanarayana M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 23:40 Subject: Re: examples
> Most of the publicly available web services *are* toys. Despite the > ".NET vision" of "The Road Ahead" there doesn't appear to be much of a > *general* business case for web services as revenue generators. >From what I gather one of the travel brokers (not Sabre, one of the others) moved to a web service API over the summer. The reason: lots of travel agents round the world were paying too much for dedicated lines. Moving to IP based networking as the access point to the booking service saves on communications overhead. It may not seem much compared to the 1-degree-of-freedom concept, but think how much the comms overhead of VISA auth, SWIFT banking, ATM auth must be: replacing all those federations with web service federations over the general internet soup would be something. Still wouldnt stop the ATM fees, visa fees or the ridiculous amounts banks charge to shove money around the world, but the margins will be better -steve
