Business Week has a special report on
Web services...
.......
That's a big difference. It means their business model can
scale, and the bigger they get, the more profitable they become
because they're building on that initial research and development
investment." [via E M E R G I C .
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On the issue of scale I would like to add (to the
excerpt above)that fact that we will ultimately come to
realize that Web Services facilitate computer cycle based value
proposition consumption. This is exponentially greater that human
interaction based value proposition consumption -- the fundamental
difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 IMHO.
It would be interesting to track the growth of
companies in line with their adoption of Web Services based
initiatives. I expect that when such a graph is produced in the
future it will validate my point.