To begin my exploration of the web services business, I've created a list of companies that have some offering related to web services. The list stands at 59 entities, of which I believe 54are tool providers. Eight of these are near me in Massachusetts. My plan is to collect literature from them all, keep analyzing the space as best I can, and then gain sharper insight by getting companies to give me briefings.
Today I phoned one company, a vendor in the security space, whose roadmap is to adapt its framework for EAI security to web services. I have such a good relationhip with the marketing director that we chatted by phone for some time without my ever getting around to talking about analyzing his space. This is okay. I'll get to that on the next call to him.
The other thing I need on entering this space to analyze it is a hypothesis about it. This I have nearly done, and it will be the subject of the next post. 
5:44:21 PM 
|
