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WS-I Elects Sun Microsystems and webMethods
to Board of Directors
Endorsement from Member Community Welcomes Web Services Leaders
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 26, 2003 -- The Web Services Interoperability Organization (“WS-I”) today announced that Mark Hapner, chief Web services strategist at Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), and Andy Astor, vice president of Enterprise Web Services at webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) have been elected to the board of directors. Sun and webMethods will join founding board members Accenture, BEA Systems, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. The terms for the two newly elected directors will begin on April 1, 2003.
“Sun's election to the WS-I board demonstrates that there is broad industry alignment in the push to establish a set of converged and open standards for Web services," said Mark Hapner. "We are pleased to have the endorsement of the vendor and user community, and are determined to make a valuable contribution to this important industry effort."
“We are honored to have been selected to the WS-I board by the companies most involved in propelling Web services into the mainstream," said Andy Astor. "webMethods is excited about the opportunity in front of us, and we look forward to working closely with the WS-I board and the general membership to promote industry-wide interoperability. webMethods will diligently work to uphold the trust that's been placed in us, and we will use our seven-year history of Web services development to contribute to the greater body of knowledge of the WS-I."
About WS-I
WS-I is an open industry organization committed to promoting consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services across platforms, applications and programming languages. The organization unites a diverse community of Web services companies by providing guidance, recommended practices and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. Since its formation in February 2002, more than 170 companies have joined WS-I. For more information please visit http://www.ws-i.org, or e-mail [email protected].
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