Web Services will take over the world. This is the opinion of sys-con publishing director Jeremy Geelan, who writes in hits latest column that recent pronouncements from Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates say it will be so.

A contrasting view to Jeremy Geelans’ can be found in a recent column by Derek Ferguson, who addresses the emerging tendency toward service-oriented architectures, or SOAs.

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