The Web's leading technology oversight group on Thursday moved one step closer to management of a key Web services standard.
In hopes of preventing a standards battle, Oracle this week proposed that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) decide the standard "choreography" language for defining how to combine various Web services to accomplish a particular task. Oracle and other technology makers argue that competing specifications threaten to fragment the technology and derail progress toward the emerging market.
In Thursday's vote, Oracle, Sun, Hewlett-Packard, Iona Technologies and SAP were among the supporters of the proposal for the W3C to handle the choreography standard. Microsoft was the lone no vote, while eight representatives abstained from voting, including IBM and BEA Systems.
Microsoft could not be reached for comment, but an IBM executive said it's premature for the W3C to unilaterally decide to create a standard without first consulting other groups involved.
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