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IBM, BEA take royalty-free stance on BPEL4WS

By Paul Krill
December 11, 2002 11:45 am PT

SAN FRANCISCO -- Removing a potential barrier to Web services choreography standards efforts, an IBM official on Wednesday pledged that the vendor will not seek royalties for its contributions to the BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) proposal. BEA Systems, a co-author of BPEL4WS, released a statement with a similar pledge shortly thereafter.

Still remaining to be heard from is Microsoft, also a BPEL4WS co-author, pertaining to its stance on royalties related to the proposal. Bob Sutor, director of Web services strategy at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, said he could not speak for the positions of the two co-authors of BPEL4WS pertaining to royalties....

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnibmbpel.xml

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