American time, "Lotus DevCon 2001"commenced at the Nevada state Las Vegas mirage hotel. Besides the fact that in the same conference, "Lotus Web Services Enablement Kit" release it did Lotus development, it verified the clear commitment for Web service, it announced "Sametime Everyplace 1.0" for the wireless device that within on the 30th shipment is started in the United States.

Al Zola who appears in general session of first day - as for president and CEO, "Web technology made the conversation of the person and the person drastically change, wireless technology anytime and anywhere made that possible. These two elements utilize the knowledge which the person has, quickly are done "when actualizing dynamic e- business", cannot miss, "either the cooperation between enterprise you said.

Lotus the occasion where IBM announces the Web service strategy to the middle of May in New York, had assumed that it keeps offering each function of collaboration, knowledge management, and e- learning as Web service, but, this time, by the fact that release it does Lotus Web Services Enablement Kit, the one step was taken.
Now immediately Web service-oriented

Web service is approach of the standard base in order to tie the application on inter-/Intranet mutually. Exceeding the fire wall, even so far there was a method of thinking of calling application, but, as for Web service in order to use single interface and protocol, the fact that it can do integration simply is feature.

IBM and Lotus, Microsoft and others and also SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) have carried out direct role with standard decision.

Zola - as for the person, "as for Web service it is not something which makes the investment for existing application wasteful, after doing changes the method of exposing the application", "it is not necessary already to wait. The Lotus customer now immediately can integrate application in the plug & the play, "you say.

With Domino, SOAP interface is added, if describing application with WSDL, for example, you say that to call from other application simply it is possible the notification function due to the E-mail of Domino. In addition, from this month end with Knowledge Discovery Server where shipment starts, other application puts out request even in the country, also it becomes possible to receive the list of the specialist and the related document as the result.

With Lotus, as for investment to the Notes/Domino application by the customer when it rises to 100 hundred million dollars, estimate it has done. Zola - the person, while the storage model of Exchange Server criticizing Microsoft where many degrees modify, "is a responsibility which protects these investments in us", that the attitude of IBM/Lotus was emphasized again.

By the way according to the estimate of IDC, you call Web service that in 2005 it grows in 500 hundred million dollar markets.
It expands even in the wireless

It is new to expand the collaboration of real time to the wireless portable terminal, "Sametime Everyplace 1.0" is.

Also Sametime already the principal function is offered as Web service. As for the developer and others, by Java API and the fact that JavaBeans is utilized, online awareness (management of being on the register) is possible the fact that function and function are installed to the application of Domino and IBM WebSphere.

You say that by the fact that Sametime Everyplace 1.0 which this time is announced is added to existing Sametime environment, PC of course can utilize the various wireless devices such as PDA and the smart phone, anytime and can actualize the collaboration of real time anywhere.