I had asked, in november, about example web-services that are available publicly. Where do web-services stand today? I would also like to from various users who are on this mailing list, what kind of services have you created and how you publicized them?
thanks. ~rf --- Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > Google and Amazon are exceptions that demonstrate > the rule. In Google's > case they're making a limited usage form of their > service available for > free, with the expectation that if people come up > with good applications > they'll either charge for usage or gain revenue some > other way - it's > under their control, since the beta license keys are > only authorized for > 1000 requests per day. In Amazon's case, they want > as many people as > possible to buy from them, and if making their > catalog and ordering > system available through a web service adds a tiny > fraction of a percent > to their sales they'll have more than justified the > effort. > > The same types of benefits could apply to other > major commercial > operations - the airlines, for instance, should have > web services > interfaces in place, as should Amazon's competitors > in the book biz, > major office supplies vendors, stock brokers, etc. - > these all have more > to gain from additional business than from > restricting users to > browsers. The credit card processing business would > be another great > market for web services, except that they always > seem to be using > technology that's a minimum of 10 years out of date > (my apologies to any > readers from that industry - I'm baffled and > frustrated that there's > still a minimum merchant charge of about $0.40 / > transaction in these > days of cheap bandwidth and processing). > > Where web services are increasingly important to a > much broader range of > companies is for linking B2B applications, including > B2B applications > within a company. SOAP is basically just a fluffier > - and somewhat more > limited - version of CORBA, after all. These types > of services are > generally not public, though. > > - Dennis > > Dennis M. Sosnoski > Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support > http://www.sosnoski.com > > RXZ JLo wrote: > > >they are all toy services at xmethods and > salcentral. > >I am looking for more like Google and Amazon. > > > >Thanks, > >rf. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > >http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
