Despite the hype, despite the hype and the passage of roughly three years time, has the promise of Web services not been delivered? IDC research indicates that organizations remain on the low end of the adoption curve for Web services. IDC sees growth rates in software and services markets related to Web services rising significantly through the forecast period out to 2008. Growth is occurring first in larger organizations, then spreading out into medium- and small-sized business markets. Using Web services to enable composite applications to. mould to changing business processes, for example, is alluring; but adoption is slowed by tools, technologies and standards that remain too nascent.”]
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