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Article: Parallels in computing: BEA VP of engineering Adam Bosworth draws on lessons learned from the client-server revolution to guide BEA's vision for Web services. (Advisor Interview).(Interview)
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- e-Business Advisor
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- May 1, 2002
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ADVISOR: Integration is difficult, but it's a difficulty many companies have learned to live with. Given that Web services is unproven, and that it presents a significant learning curve, at what point is it worth implementing?
BOSWORTH: We're at a cusp, and I've been at this cusp before. Almost ten years ago, when I was building [Microsoft] Access, client-server computing was beyond most people. There wasn't a lot of research done, there was a hard set of APIs to learn, and it was different for every database. It just wasn't taking off.
Five years later, the landscape was transformed beyond all recognition. What happened? In 1993 and 1994, Microsoft ...