Peter Donald wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:29, Geoff Soutter wrote:
> > > Another key
> > > difference is the emphasis on ubiquity.
> >
> > Yes, seems to me this one of the main difference (apart from the
> > "marketing" aspects). This comes from using a public, "free" network rather
> > than private, fee based network to transmit the data.
>
> I wonder how long that will last. I don't have any experience in this area
> but I would find it insane for any decent sized organization to rely on the
> internet for any time sensitive data. Imagine what happens when network goes
> down or slows up. Time sensitive data may not be delivered on time and thus
> may incur fines or may have to wait till next delivery period. And I would
> hazard to guess that this could be costly for the organiztion.
Every example I have seen for web services would lay in the area of
"trivial
applications". These are not full service EDI applications. However,
the
web services technologies can be adapted for private fee based networks
to
replace aging mainframes and COBOL code.
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