http://radio.weblogs.com/0100738/categories/wsdom/ <a href="mailto: max@maxhansen.com">Max Christian Hansen's</a> Web Services Blog Copyright 2002 Max Christian Hansen Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:03:57 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Max Christian Hansen Max Hansen <P>To begin my exploration of the web services business, I've created a list of companies that have some offering related to web services.&nbsp; The list stands at 59 entities, of which I believe 54are tool providers.&nbsp; Eight of these are near me in Massachusetts.&nbsp; 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.</P> <P>Today I phoned one company, a vendor in the security space, whose roadmap is to adapt its framework for EAI security to web services.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; This is okay.&nbsp; I'll get to that on the next call to him.&nbsp; </P> <P>The other thing I need on entering this space to analyze it is a hypothesis about it.&nbsp; This I have nearly done, and it will be the subject of the next post.</P> Today I begin logging my explorations of the world of web services.&nbsp; These log entries will get their own category site, called WSdom.&nbsp;