IBM and Microsoft have put their rivalry aside once again to jointly develop new technology for Web services.
The two companies on Thursday proposed a new Web standard that will allow businesses to directly find each other's services over the Internet. For example, a company looking to include credit card checks as part of its e-commerce Web site can search and find the credit validation service by browsing a bank's Web site.
The new technology, called WS-Inspection, is the fourth Web services standard created jointly by Microsoft and IBM and is part of the plumbing required to implement the software industry's vision of subscription-based software and services over the Web. The first three Web services standards have won the support of all the major software companies, including Oracle, Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems.
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