Gates, Mills talk up Web Services in NY
eWeek | at | by Mike
Bill Gates and IBM Software chief Steve Mills joined together here today to give an update on their companies' combined work in advancing Web services.
In an intimate setting at the St. Regis hotel, Gates, Microsoft's chief software architect and chairman, and Mills, IBM Software Group's senior vice president and general manager, demonstrated for the first time reliable messaging and secure, authenticated transactions across a federated, heterogeneous environment.
They also announced that they plan to take the specifications used to pull off the demonstration, and which the companies have been developing for three years, to open standards bodies soon, and that they would not seek royalties for the specs.