Web services software has evolved from a state of creation to more rampant consumption, according to an IDC report, which expects the market to hit about $15 billion by 2009.
Major vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems and others will blaze trails in Web services security, management, messaging and event processing utilities.
Often deployed under the auspices of service oriented architectures (SOA) to integrate different applications, such software tools allow applications to be ferried across networks regardless of their code or the infrastructure they may be deployed on.
This seamless interoperability is imperative for the distributed computing direction the software space is headed toward.
