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Service notification

How does a service consumer become aware of new services? Standards inititiatives, most notably UDDI, work on a polling model, where the consumer searches the registry for services of interest. The parallels here with browsing are obvious – in the early days of the web I would have to periodically visit a site to see [...]

Posted on Friday, October 7, 2005 by

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Stoking the Sun database fire

Back in February, News.com reported how Scott McNealy suggested in a presentation to financial analysts that Sun might offer its customers its own database in direct competition to the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. At the time, he would say no more than “watch this space”. In an interview with Sun president Jonathan Schwartz [...]

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