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| | ThirdM.Com - Web Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The web service consumer development is quite different from component consumer development because there is a loss of control. |
 | | The dictionary web service is a bit fictional, but should be a reality within 5 or 10 years when all devices, computers, appliances, cars, hotels, airports, and airplanes go "live" and become part of the persistent network. |
 | | UPS wins because they get more business by helping other businesses help their customers, not by handling unnecessary traffic to their web site which is an inconvenience to the end customer who must use two separate web sites to handle a purchase. |
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