Microsoft's customers seem to be ramping up to implement and use Web services, but just how many are actually doing it? And how fast? Microsoft officials admit they're not sure.
As Microsoft introduces products--such as last week's launch of Windows Server 2003 and VisualStudio.Net 2003--with tools and middleware that make it easier to roll out Web services, one assumes that more companies are using those capabilities to do just that. But Microsoft execs say there's no system in place to track the adoption rate among customers. "We can talk anecdotally about customers and adoption patterns," says Neil Charney, Microsoft's director of .Net and platform strategy. "How many of them have turned on that capability? We don't know."
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