TechEd: Work starts on Web Services in Europe
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Web services are set to grow next year with 90% of European developers and IT professionals saying they will develop services in 2003, according to a survey of delegates planning to attend this week's Microsoft TechEd conference in Barcelona. More than 1,750 people, from 62 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa answered the online survey during May and June, Microsoft said. More than half of survey respondents, 54%, said that their organisations are currently developing Web services and 90% will do so in 2003, Microsoft said. Almost all of those already working on Web services, some 94%, said that such services will open up new business opportunities, and 66% said that Web services would help people understand the value that technology brings to a business.