Allan Hoffman

The burgeoning world of Web services is already starting to intrude upon the lives of technology professionals, leading them to wonder: What types of expertise will be necessary as the field matures? Web services technology is all about allowing disparate computer systems and applications to communicate and interoperate. Not surprisingly, a number of standards have […]

IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and other companies tout the amazing potential of Web services. But most techies — the programmers, system administrators and others who actually create and maintain the technology — havent even begun to work on Web services projects. Is this another overhyped trend, or is it, as some contend, a transformation likely […]