“There’s a bit more to the IBM/Lotus donation of its Simple
Object Access Protocol (6,000 downloads from IBM’s alphaWorks site)
to Apache’s XML Project than meets the eye. As Robert Sutor, IBM’s
XML program director, put it yesterday, IBM does not want the
Internet to become “a battleground of competing, vendor-specific
‘control points’.”
“IBM criticised the first version of SOAP, but Microsoft
rather surprisingly agreed to change the spec to be less-favourable
to Microsoft software. As a consequence, IBM threw its support
behind SOAP and is now at least the co-driver.”
“IBM criticised the first version of SOAP, but Microsoft rather
surprisingly agreed to change the spec to be less-favourable to
Microsoft software. As a consequence, IBM threw its support behind
SOAP and is now at least the co-driver.”