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  Will David or Goliath manage your Web services?
Time: 10:10 EST/15:10 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Byron Hinson

With Web services nudging closer to a position as mainstream enterprise technology, organizations need to ask themselves a fundamental question: Should my services be managed through software offered by one of the many startups promising end-to-end management, or is it safer to rely on an established systems management platform that also does Web services management?
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