WS-I to vote on Sun's fate
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A consequential joust for power in Web services standards development will unfold this week with Sun Microsystems making a bid for one of two board seats being added to The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). Sun's election bid is deemed significant, as the company did not participate in the February 2002 formation of WS-I after being initially denied a board seat. Sun did join last October when given the chance to run for a seat.
Ballots from the 166 member organizations can be cast from March 17 through March 21, with an announcement of the results expected on March 28. Whereas rivals Microsoft and IBM have permanent board seats, Sun's term would be subject to re-election, said Rob Cheng, marketing communications committee chairman at WS-I and an Oracle senior product manager. IBM said it is supporting Sun's bid, but Microsoft declined to comment on whether or not it will vote for Sun.