Date: Sep. 7, 2001
Link: http://www.webservicesarchitect.com/content/articles/clark02.asp
Source Author or Organization: Mike Clark, Web Services Architect

This article by Mike Clark, designer of salcentral Web Services brokerage and SOAP:Net, is an installment in a series about building a business model for Web Services that learns from the dotcoms that did not survive.

Clark discusses the history of charging for service-based Web technology, and predicts the coming year will reveal a number of Web Services of sufficient quality and content that customers will prefer paying a reasonable fee to developing their own solution. A possible business model is introduced and diagrammed, and ideas for generating ongoing revenue are explored.