Battle of the platforms.

Discusses the outlook for so-called web services, in which machines will be able to communicate via the Interent and provide various electronic offerings. Example of ADP, which distributes employee paychecks, as a pioneer in web services; Battle in the software industry over which platform, or oper...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 359; no. 8217; pp. 15 - 18
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 4/14/2001
Materias:	Internet industry Service industries Computer operating systems Java programming language Microsoft Corp.
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	Discusses the outlook for so-called web services, in which machines will be able to communicate via the Interent and provide various electronic offerings. Example of ADP, which distributes employee paychecks, as a pioneer in web services; Battle in the software industry over which platform, or operating system, will support web services, including Sun Microsystems' Java and the Microsoft .NET program; Background on web services, including the role of middleware.