Paul Krill

The battle for Web services supremacy between the Java and Microsoft .Net camps is far from over, according to a survey released this week.

With the morass of industry bickering and competition over industry standards, users might want to consider blackmailing vendors by closing their wallets, an analyst said recently at the InfoWorld Next-Generation Web Services II: The Applications conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

Web services provides great potential, but its growing pains will continue, according to panelists at a session of the Web Services Edge 2002 conference in San Jose on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES

IBM Corp. has revealed plans to move more of its Informix-bred database technologies to Big Blue's own DB2 data management platform.

MySQL AB, maker of the identically named open-source database, is adding transactional support to its database, company officials said.

Microsoft Corp., with its Windows server platform set to gain dramatic improvements in security, storage, and reliability, wants developers to build server applications that will last for decades, said Jim Allchin, group vice-president of the company's platforms group, in a speech at the recent Microsoft DevCon conference in Seattle.

Macromedia Inc. on Monday will announce shipment of ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers, a scripting technology that now can be deployed on application servers from IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Macromedia Inc., the company said.