Title:
Justification of Internet Business Models in SOA/Grid Network
Abstract: The Internet business is barely in existence for over
a decade and yet the pace of technology has put it trajectory to yet another
revolutionary change. The merge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
of Web services, over a grid computing network in the past few years has
enabled heterogeneous systems, applications, and databases owned by independent
enterprises to dynamically render business processes flow across the cyberspace
through sharing informational as well as computational resources in a transparent
manner, thus forming a new type of services called Grid Services, which are
now being explored by big players like IBM, Oracle, and Google. If
the arrival of World Wide Web helped spawn numerous new business models,
then the Grid services are potentially the next generation of cyber-infrastructure
that fuels the further evolution, if not revolution, of the Internet business.
The Internet business models that we know of today may be subjected to fundamental
changes. First, the scale involved is fundamentally different from
today’s Internet business; secondly, internet businesses will no longer operate
in isolations since they must share resources in order to stay in business;
thirdly, Grid services encourage the existence of middleman over the currently
popular direct sells model. Fourthly, grid services promote the flexibility
of evolving nature of Internet business models. Since it is just the beginning
stage for Internet business to run in grid service mode, new Internet business
models are expected to be exploited in the near future. We report here a
scenario constructed by applying the Internet business graph analysis models
previously developed by author to grid services environment and speculate
on what types of Internet business models and their players are most likely
to flourish in this new computing technology.
Author: Chiou-Pirng Wang