Web Services like Unix's Software Tools?

"...I saw a large division between the concept of software and service. But that's changed now, I think - the lines have blurred because the Internet has proven its reliability." Russell Beattie Notebook

More on the potential for ad hoc use of Web Services, viewing Web Services as well-defined, small utilities in the UNIX model.

This was previously published at http://blog.sockdrawer.org and was retrieved from the Internet Archive.