Gartner says WSDL is a critical standard

A recent Gartner Research Report, entitled 'Consider WSDL a Critical Standard'. Reinforced their opinion that WSDL and web services are a fundamental component to successful SOA. Their bottom line is use WSDL or find your self alone in an obscure corner of the industry.

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The IBM workplace technology seems to be gaining some traction. Stephen O'grady has written up an analysis of what some other vendors are proposing to do on top of it.

Actuate's plans are intersting for two reasons: 1)it is an open source business intelligence project, 2) it is built on Eclipse.