JUNE 18, 2002Vol 1, Issue 4

It's a technology to watch on a month to month basis, to see how it evolves, and affects you, and be prepared to move quickly. You deploy and build so fast, it's easy to fall behind if you miss the boat.   Kirk Farquhar, director of system engineering at Borland Canada Borland Canada FREE Web services white papers from Borland Canada. Canada lags U.S. but is embracing Web services Analysts say Canada is six months to two years behind the U.S. in the race to embrace Web services, but it’s a market that is yet to prove itself and Canadians are getting more involved, especially in the developer community. Building the Web services world The hardware, software and services fuelling Web services will generate more than $34 billion (US) by 2007, and the low barriers to entry will mean the SMBs will have a much easier time competing with the Global 2000. Ramping up for Web services It’s been hyped for a while, but technological and market changes mean that the long-awaited Web services revolution is now less than a year away, and interest and plans for implementation among companies is taking off. J2EE and Web services Web services are expected to ramp up quickly in the next few years and J2EE will play a significant role in the development of competitive (but compatible?) platforms from the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sun. Web services – the next paradigm Unlike the more expensive technologies like EDI and EAI, Web services has the potential to allow businesses of any size to form e-commerce relationships with partners of any size anywhere in the world. eChannelLine eFocused Report is an email publication devoted to bringing the Canadian IT&T Channel the latest news on the industry. eChannelLine eFocused Reports are published by eChannelLine, a division of Integrated mar.com To view this newsletter online, please click here. Manage your subscription: To subscribe to any of our other publications; To change your e-mail address for delivery; To edit your personal profile; To unsubscribe from any of our publications; Please Click Here. Please direct all comments about eChannelLine eFocused Reports to Steve Wexler.