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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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Published in:Economist Vol. 359; no. 8217; pp. 15 - 18
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 4/14/2001
Subjects:
Internet industry
Service industries
Computer operating systems
Java programming language
Microsoft Corp.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost