Re: Etymology of "web service"

William McKenzie wrote:
>
> After seeing all this great discussion of what a web service "is", I
> wonder if we've answered the original question.  Etymology is not so
much
> what something means, but how it got to mean that, what it meant along
the
> way, etc.  I think the original poster might be more interested in the
> history of the term.


That's an interesting point, Bill.  Who did coin the term?  From my
discussions with the business side of several companies, they use the
term 'Web Services' but are not familiar with the web services stack and
do not understand how the underlying technologies relate to web
services.

It's funny that in the old days many said SOAP was a Microsoft
technology (which was not true), and now many thing believe web services
are a single product or technology (which is also not true).

The more things change, the more the stay the same. =8-|


-Matt Long
Phalanx Systems, LLC

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