XML and Web Services In The News - Wednesday 12 March 2003

Liberty Alliance Details Identity Architecture
Thor Olavsrud, Internetnews.com
Moving to put its stamp on a standards-based method for federated network identity, the Liberty Alliance Tuesday unwrapped plans for a complete identity infrastructure. A new white paper outlining the Liberty Alliance Federated Network Identity Architecture describes a technical solution which may resolve many of the technology issues currently hindering deployment of identity-based Web services.

Amazon.com: The Web Services Trailblazer
Tony Hallett, ZDNet News
Amazon.com's Web services model has impressed experts who believe the online retailer is far ahead of its rivals. Amazon.com has fleshed out how it is using Web services to drive sales and increase profits.

Report: Global Enterprises Turning to Linux Servers
Peter Galli, eWEEK
A report on Linux released this week by Forrester Research has found that global enterprises are increasingly turning to cheap Intel-based Linux servers to run a variety of datacenter applications and, in the process, are replacing both Microsoft Windows and proprietary Unix platforms.

Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 5. Adding Links and Manipulating Data.
Matthew Duftler, Francisco Curbera, Rania Khalaf. IBM developerWorks
The authors expand the process they documented in an earlier article of the series. Part 5 illustrates two core capabilities for defining choreographies: defining flow of control using guarded links, and manipulating data with the 'assign' activity.

State of the Web Services World
Johna Till Johnson, Network World
Nemertes Research worked with 45 companies to benchmark how they're deploying Web services, what benefit they're achieving, and how they're measuring and monitoring the performance of these services.

Microsoft to Sell Stake in Corel
David Becker, CNET News.com
Microsoft is preparing to sell its stake in struggling Canadian software maker Corel at a loss of more than $100 million.