Norbert Mikula has more than 10 years of experience in building and
delivering Internet and e-business technologies. He serves as
vice-chairman of the board of directors of OASIS and is industry
editor of Web Services Journal. Norbert is recognized internationally
as an expert in Internet and e-business technologies and speaks
regularly at industry events.
WSJ's Industry Editor, Norbert Mikula, recently spoke with Dave Deutschman, chief technology officer of Quintessent Communications, headquartered in Seattle, WA., about their entry into the Web services market.
Security concerns, especially since the events of last Fall, are at the center of many industry discussions. Ever-increasing reports of hacker activities and security holes in well-known software products further fuel the debate, and rightfully so. Web services is a great new technolog...
There are plenty of jokes regarding the world of standards development, from 'Standards are like sausages - you're better off not knowing how they were created' to the old-time paradox: 'The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.'
Why Bother? When I was asked to focus this month's column on the subject of wireless and Web services, my immediate reaction was 'Why bother?' If you follow industry press and talk to prospects and customers, it seems that the brave new world of Web services is number 11 on the list o...
For a few months, I was a member of the W3C RDF-Schema WG, so I looked forward to reviewing Creating the Semantic Web with RDF. I couldn't wait to see how the potential of RDF and the semantic Web would be explained without creating major digestive problems and headaches (or unintentio...
Most of the major providers of development platforms have already started shipping development tools for Web services. It seems inevitable that everyone will jump on the Web services bandwagon in the not-so-distant future. However, in the minds of many there are still lingering ques...
Web services are a great vision to talk about. as evidenced by the increasing number of companies declaring themselves the leader in the Web services market. Hype aside, just as with XML, sooner or later we'll all realize there's no Web services market per se but only ways to apply...
So here we are, more than four years since XML (eXtensible Markup Language) first saw the light of the public day. We have come a long way since the early days. The XML hype started with a small group of experts who argued that SGML wasn't suitable for Web-based publishing and that HT...
E-business, B2B, enterprise information portals (EIPs) and XML are the leading buzzwords of our industry because information - and its efficient management - is at the heart of any e-business environment. XML is the standard for the markup of information in Web-based Internet/intranet ...
Since I successfully left behind the nightmares and terrors of chemistry class when I graduated from high school (and I want these experiences to stay where they are, buried in my subconscious), let's focus on the second meaning of catalyst, 'an agent that provokes or speeds significan...
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