Frankly, I don't see a reason for a UDDI enabled client on every PC. Of course, I don't see a reason for AOL ;). Having said that, you must realize that I am a technologist, not a futurist, or a marketer, or a business strategist. I have no significant understand of cultures other than within the United States, and even then I seem to personally exist far enough from the mainstream that some trends surprise me. So, UDDI could be built into the next version of IE, and everyone could start using it, and I would not be totally surprised.
However, I think some trends in Internet B2C and B2B, within the U.S. at least, are enlightening. Regarding B2B, I am very familiar with VerticalNet, a local company that, at the height of the Internet boom, operated dozens of on-line B2B exchanges. The interesting trend revealed to me by a friend who was an executive there: companies accepted bids from all comers on-line, yet the vast majority of the time selected existing partners. The B2C trend: on-line stores of well known bricks-and-mortar chains, such as Wal-Mart, have come to dominate e-commerce. Statistically, people in the U.S., in both their business and personal lives, maintain relationships with organizations they know and feel comfortable with. I don't think they would be so comfortable with hooking up to a web service provided by a company they never heard of if there is a "name brand" alternative. In fact, if someone is an AOL user, I think they would be happy to have AOL establish the relationship with the third party providing the service. This is what happens today without web services, and I don't see web services changing the behavior. Web services will facilitate the relationship between the two business entities, but consumers will benefit without directly interacting with the web services themselves. Note: I've been wrong before. Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "soap vamsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:37 AM Subject: Re: Re: Re: why uddi? > Scott, > Yes i completely agree with you on that Scott.But is there a > possiblity of the evolution of generic web service client that > will enable the consumer to search for a webservice, discover it > and invoke the service method of his choice.Evolution of such a > client that say, can be plugged into the web browser, will > drastically improve the scope of the webservices. > How much do u think this is realisable?And if yes what could be > timeframe? > vamsi > On Tue, 28 May 2002 Scott Nichol wrote : > >There needs to be Web services clients, but I do not think they > >will reside on > >consumer machines. I think consumers will access the likes of > >Yahoo, AOL, MSN, > >each of which will in turn aggregate content from multiple > >providers, which they > >already do, but increasingly using Web services. Most of the > >content will be > >provided/accessed through pre-arranged partnerships. I do not > >envision a large > >amount of ad hoc use of Web services. > > > >Where I am a consultant (Philadelphia, mid-way between New York > >and Washington, > >DC), I am finally seeing the interest in SOAP and Web services > >picking up. > >However, in all cases so far, it is for the purpose of > >application integration. > >Some large corporations I work with are most interested in using > >SOAP/WS > >internally to integrate their own systems, although their initial > >exposure was > >connecting to partners who were early adopters. I also work with > >a number of > >ISVs and ASPs who simply see SOAP/WS as another technology by > >which to expose an > >API. They have all found some usefulness to Microsoft's DISCO or > >WS-Inspection. > >None of them have done anything with UDDI. Of course, this might > >simply mean > >that they don't see an opportunity that is actually there. > > > >Scott Nichol > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > From: "soap vamsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:40 AM > >Subject: Re: Re: why uddi? > > > > > > > thanks scott, > > > Yes the B2C senario the customers will rely on trusted > >search > > > engines to look up webservices.But once again dont the > >clients > > > need soap capable clients to use the services ,keeping in > >mind > > > that every soap service will call for a specific soap > >client. > > > vamsi > > > > > > On Mon, 27 May 2002 Scott Nichol wrote : > > > >I personally have great doubts that UDDI will become > >important. > > > >I agree with your reasoning in the > > > >B2B scenario. For B2C, it seems more likely that clients > >will > > > >"learn" of a service via a "trusted" > > > >source, much as consumers typically do searches today via > >Yahoo, > > > >Google or even AOL. > > > > > > > >Scott Nichol > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "soap vamsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 01:35 > > > >Subject: why uddi? > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am not sure if this is the right place for this query > >,I > > > >will > > > > > be grateful though for any information in this > >direction. > > > > > My query is regarding the services that are likely to > >become > > > > > webservices and the need for uddi. > > > > > In my opnion there are two senarios where webservies > >might > > > >find > > > > > place > > > > > 1.b2b. > > > > > 2.b2c. > > > > > Firstly in a b2b senario one business knows the > >other.Where is > > > >the > > > > > need to dynamically discover the service using uddi? > > > > > In a b2c senario when if the client doesnot know the > > > >business > > > > > service provider the need for uddi is warrnated,but here > >the > > > > > client(i am referening to an end user) needs to soap > >aware > > > >and > > > > > soap capable to avail those services.To what extent is > >this > > > >a > > > > > realistic expectation? > > > > > If i am wrong in my extrapolation regd the likely > > > >webservices, > > > > > what services to become webservices? > > > > > > > > > > I may have been myopic in my opinion formation,pl feel > >free > > > >to > > > > > make me aware of the possiblities that i have > >overlooked. > > > > > Thaking you > > > > > vamsi > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > > > > Click below to visit monsterindia.com and review jobs in > >India > > > >or > > > > > Abroad > > > > > http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Click below to visit monsterindia.com and review jobs in India > >or > > > Abroad > > > http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Click below to visit monsterindia.com and review jobs in India or > Abroad > http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs > >
