Dave takes me to task for using XMethod‘s number of registered services as a metric in my attempt to track the growth of Web services on the Internet.
I know it’s not a great metric, sure, but I’m not extracting very much information from it. I’m certainly not claiming that there were, for example, only 376 of them in existence last month. All I’m saying by counting them is that wouldn’t you expect that if Web services were seeing success on the Internet, then the number at XMethods would also be increasing?
But my objective here isn’t sinister. I’m honestly just looking for a metric which reflects SOAP/SOA deployment on the Internet, in the spirit of trying to measure “success” in a meaningful way; not “hype” or “products supporting it”, but actual use in the context it was designed for. If anybody’s got a better one (which shouldn’t be hard at all), I’m all ears.
no comment until now