Compared to the Use of Proprietary Components,Web Services Promise to Be

question 53

Multiple Choice

Compared to the use of proprietary components,Web services promise to be less expensive and less difficult to implement because of

• A)their ability to integrate seamlessly with legacy systems.
• B)their ability to enable communication among different systems using universal standards.
• C)the ubiquity of the Internet.
• D)the ability to reuse Web services components.
• E)their use of custom programming.

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Competition

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