This report is a reprint from the August 29, 2002 Patricia Seybold Group's Strategic Research Service.
It has been reproduced here as originally published.
Patricia Seybold Group
Strategic Consultants & Thought Leaders
Hitting the Exploratory Web
Services Bull’s-Eye
How We Rated the Support for the Exploratory
Phase of Web Services in Seven of the
Leading Web Services Deployment
Environments
By Susan E. Aldrich
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Hitting the Exploratory Web Services Bull’s-Eye
How We Rated the Support for the Exploratory Phase of Web Services in Seven of the Leading Web
Services Deployment Environments
By Susan E. Aldrich
August 29, 2002
NETTING IT OUT
This Bull’s-Eye report presents the highest-level
summary of our analysis, evaluation, and com-
parison of the Web Services Exploratory Phase
coverage of seven of the leading Web Services
Deployment Environment solutions: IBM Web-
Sphere 5.0, BEA WebLogic Server Version 7.0,
Oracle Oracle9IAS, Sun ONE Application
Server 7, Microsoft .NET Framework, Macro-
media JRun and ColdFusion MX, and Systinet
WASP.
Web Services Deployment Environments must
provide deployment, runtime, and management
capabilities, as well as enable integration with
existing infrastructure, management, and secu-
rity technologies.
For the Exploratory Phase of Web Services,
Macromedia and Microsoft solutions earned a
1, our top score, followed by Systinet and Ora-
cle with a 2, then IBM and BEA with scores of
3. We ranked Sun with a 4, and no solution
earned a 5, the lowest score. (For complete de-
tails, see our series of reports on Web Services
Deployment Environments at the end of this
report.)
Note, however, that this Bull’s-Eye only