WS-I to expand its board
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said Thursday will add two seats to its board of directors, a move that may help heal a rift between the group and Sun Microsystems.
Sun is getting left behind on Web services as it tries to come up with a non-Microsoft approach to the technology, according to one industry analyst. "Sun has been fighting a losing rearguard action on this thing from day one. This is a battle that Sun has been battered and bloodied on," said Will Zachmann, president of Canopus Research, in Duxbury, Mass. Meanwhile, .Net has become a much stronger platform for Web services, he added.