Different Web Service Providers
If you look at the markets for ISPs and EDI, you'll find that different types of services are being provided. It is likely that similar roles will also evolve to support Web services:
Tool vendors, whose companies offer tools that enable the other parties to work. For example, HTML editors provide tools that help Web site developers in their businesses. With EDI, the tool vendors offer so-called “EDI translators.”
With Web services, the vendors are different and their products are more sophisticated (application servers), but the need to offer products remains.
Developers, in the broadest sense of the term. These are the companies (and sometimes individuals) that build the Web sites or design the EDI interface. They ...
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