WS-* explosion

Interesting quote at the SOA Blog by the Jonathan Schwartz - that Web Service standards are proliferating out of control and may collapse or fragment. That may well be true but it seems likely that the service oriented computing meme will be with us for a long time (and in indeed already has been): the issues faced by WS-* are the classic problems that come out of the woodwork when you try to build complex distributed systems. There's no doubt some of these standards will die - but at the end of the day at least we have a more or less common framework people are working towards.