Attachmate Joins Web Services Interoperability Organization; Members Promote Web Services Standardization and Cross-platform Technologies.Business Editors, Technology Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002 Attachmate Corporation (www.attachmate.com), a leading provider of enterprise presentation and application integration products and services, has announced the company has joined the Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. (WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services ) organization as an active community member. WS-I is an open organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and programming languages. The WS-I organization provides guidance, best practices, and resources to customers for developing Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. solutions. "As a leading vendor for legacy application extension products and solutions, Attachmate will provide the WS-I organization with in-depth knowledge of the interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. issues associated with host access," said Larry Schuiski, Attachmate senior vice president, products and support. "Attachmate's participation in the WS-I will help establish the means for customers to use the technologies of the Internet to better leverage their existing legacy assets." WS-I brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders, such as Attachmate, to respond to customer needs with solutions based on common, accepted definitions and related XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. standards support. The community of WS-I members includes software vendors of all sizes, enterprise customers, and many others interested in Web services. Attachmate will join other member organizations as a participant in workgroups to expand standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting efforts. In the next few years, analysts expect Web services to gain in popularity as a more efficient way to build software. Web services technology allows businesses with different computing systems to more easily interact and conduct transactions. But analysts and technology buyers warn that Web services won't catch on industry wide unless there is a widely accepted way of including existing legacy systems. "The legacy applications of the back office have traditionally not been able to fully participate in client-server integration technologies. Web Services technology provides the means to bring those two worlds together," continued Schuiski. "Attachmate will be a leader in integrating legacy applications with the new technologies and standards associated with Web services." About WS-I Organization The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. The organization brings together a diverse community of Web services leaders to respond to customer needs by providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. Web services. Those implementing Web services will be able to use the tools and materials made available by WS-I, to ensure that their services interoperate See interoperable. with others. For more information on WS-I, go to www.ws-i.org. About Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a privately held worldwide supplier of mission-critical host access solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises. The company provides solutions for direct, real-time access to back-office systems, Web-to-host and desktop-to-host solutions, plus flexible enterprise application integration and legacy Web services offerings. News and information is available at http://www.attachmate.com or by calling Attachmate(R) worldwide headquarters in Bellevue, Washington Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. , at (425) 644-4010. (c)2002. 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