NetFlash: Users still bullish on Web services

A year ago Network World talked to three pioneering users of Web services about how they were planning to use the budding technology and why. Now we talk with them again and get a reality check. One says Web services exceeded its expectations, another says it realized it needed a whole new architecture and is now building it, and the third found it had to abandon its Web services-based app and take another route altogether. Users still bullish on Web services http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519revisited.html?net

A year ago Network World talked to three pioneering users of Web services about how they were planning to use the budding technology and why. Now we talk with them again and get a reality check. One says Web services exceeded its expectations, another says it realized it needed a whole new architecture and is now building it, and the third found it had to abandon its Web services-based app and take another route altogether.

Users still bullish on Web services

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0519revisited.html?net

MCI wins another government contract

MCI-not-WorldCom continues to win government contracts despite the fact that it filed for bankruptcy and is the center of the biggest accounting scandal in history. Just think how many contracts they could win if things were going well.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0520noaa.html?net

Cisco tightens security in hardware, software

Cisco is wheeling out a smorgasbord of hardware and software security upgrades to boost performance of VPNs and add more security features such as intrusion detection.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0520cissec.html?net

Microsoft, antivirus vendors team on virus info site

Microsoft has allied with antivirus vendors Network Associates and Trend Micro to form the Virus Information Alliance, an initiative to keep users better informed about virus threats to Microsoft products.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0520microantiv.html?net