PC World – Makes a stand against Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.
…”The important thing is to make sure we don’t create mobile-specific protocols,” says Skytta. “We want to make sure one set of generic Web services protocols can support mobile and nonmobile applications. Our phones will seamlessly integrate with Web services on the rest of a company’s IT architecture.” …
Reading the article you almost get the impression Nokia has invented webservices. Both IBM and Microsoft are leading in this ballgame. I am not sure what Mr Skytta means by “mobile specific protocols”, but Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform is hardly a siloed approach, besides webservices .NET and the .NET Compact Framework allow for good integration with the rest of a company’s IT architecture. I am quite sure Microsoft will give wenservices in the mobile area a big push as well …
