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In addition to answer
>1. Who would pay to use Google web services and why?
I assume it'll be the same people who pay for http://www.google.com/xml/
as well as those who pay for the Google Search Appliance[0] will
appreciate utilizing that functionality from internal applications.
[0]http://www.google.com/appliance/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 1:15 PM
> To: Don Park; Xml-Dev
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Web Service Business Questions
>
>
> Don Park wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > Until we have convincing answers to these questions, arguments over
> > SOAP and REST are no more interesting than sports bar arguments.
>
> I disagree because I don't see the Google use case as a
> killer app for web services. The two killer apps for web services are:
>
> * enterprise application integration
> * cross-organization integration (supply chain integration,
> customer data sharing, etc.)
>
> Furthermore:
>
> > 2. What is the cost of operation?
>
> > 3. How will accountability and liability be distributed?
>
> There must be answers to these questions because people have
> been doing "web services" since there were computer
> networks...in the form of EDI and other technologies based on
> proprietary networks and sometimes proprietary protocols.
> This is the core business of e.g. the financial arm of
> Reuters. In theory web services should bring the price down
> so that this (proven!) business model will be more widely applicable.
>
> Paul Prescod
>
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