Where did MS+IBM joint effort go?!?!?!

Note: this entry has moved.

I noticed (like many others) that IBM was missing from WS-Eventing. If the reasons initially given by IBM were right, I could be disapointed, but I could understand that they want to sell MQ Series instead of WS-Eventing. However, it appears that they have come up with a competing specification that aims at doing mostly the same thing!!! WS-Notification was released almost at the same time!!!
So what the hell is going on?!?! Can't they just agree on ONE set of WS-* specs? I'm afraid the WS-* specs will become a nightmare to master (not to mention interop). Looks like everyone wants to be THE ONE that writes the specs...

No Comments