Market Dynamics

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.