There were no Internet Service Providers (ISP)s yet. The Web was still more than a decade away. The Internet you know and use every day dates back to 1991 and the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX).

We are not writing Web services applications--what we are doing is Web services-enabling existing applications. Web services is much more of a wrapper technology.

Bowstreet helped pioneer the Web services category and is now leveraging J2EE-based application servers to provide a new layer of Web services automation.