Web services

Report: Web services to alter consulting | CNET News.com And since a large portion of the revenue generated by consulting companies is the result of systems-integration services, those companies will need to alter their business models to survive, according to Jason Bloomberg, the report's author. "Because Web services will enable tomorrow's software to integrate out of the box, consultants will have to add value somewhere else,"

Comment: What part of webservices I don't understand beats me. I don't see how webservices will erase integration from the map. Those products will not discover services automagically even if the drivers are leading us to believe it, and no they won't exactly do what is needed of them, so their output will need tweaking...It's not because MS has implemented VBA across all its apps, that IT less employees or consultants working for them developing apps. There are still SDK/API outthere waiting to be mastered and the same will go with WebServices. I guess we will do more with less, this I could buy, but it's so "cliche" and so not-sensational...