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A battle between software vendors for control of Web services standards could undermine the enterprise

A specification for Web services choreography and business processes introduced by Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., and BEA Systems Inc. last August remains under its founders' jurisdiction, despite repeated assurances of its pending submission to an industry standards organization.

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Royalty-free industry specifications are needed to enable Web services to fulfill its potential as a mechanism for business process integration on a massive scale, Sun Microsystems Inc. officials stressed on Thursday.

Setting the stage for another potential battle over Web services standardization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., and Oracle Corp. on Jan. 14 plan to announce a specification for Web services reliability without participation from rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

Standardization of Web services choreography, which will enable development of complex Web services for business, is 18 months to two years away, said a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) official Wednesday while the W3C met to take up the issue.

The future of Web services in the enterprise lies not in hit-and-run applications such as stock quotes and weather updates.