John,

>Hey Doug,
>Once again, I'm picking up what you're putting down. I think the best bet is to wait for the huge push for Web Services and see if our hopes that someone comes up with an effective and reliable uptime solution pan out. In the meantime, I will continue "playing" with Web Services, and I will continue to use them on my company's IIS. Do to the fact that I am the one publishing, and that the people that I develop for are "geeks" as well, I am fairly safe, at this point, using Web Services for production applications. I guess in the end, it all comes down to wait and see. Oh well...
>jfh

You bet. I am very excited about the potential of web services. It just doesn't justify some of the hyperbole IMO..

I'll bet that some certification body or standard will arise and web service sites will promote themselves as having 'x' percent of uptime. Something like that. Then the issue of charging for a service becomes an issue.

I have an idea of how to make money with web services but want to think it through a little more.