If you've browsed some recent articles in the popular trade press on the topic of Web services, you may have noticed several common themes:
The Web services battle is really a Microsoft .NET versus Sun Java event.
Microsoft has the marketing lead while Sun is having trouble getting its act together.
Hewlett-Packard is way late to the fray.
BEA is losing market share to IBM.
Let's take a close look at some of these themes.