Web Services Technologies to Come in '03
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft Corp. will release new technologies next year designed to allow companies to easily share information about customers, employees and other common users of applications and networks, the company said on Thursday. The announcement is the latest from the Redmond, Washington-based software giant in its push into the nascent Web services market and marked a more cooperative approach to a rival effort led by Sun Microsystems Inc. Under Web services, the goal is to enable companies to share information with each other, customers, partners and suppliers, across disparate applications and networks. The new Microsoft technologies, code-named "TrustBridge," will appear in products next year, but which products will use it has yet to be determined, said Steven VanRoekel, director of Web Services technical marketing for Microsoft.