A few days ago, Robert X. CringelyÆ reported that I am starting a new company. This is true. Here is how he reported it.
Craig Burton, one of the co-founders of Novell, is about to get back in the game as the CEO of JanusLogix, which is developing XML routing and Web services mapping software due out later this year, a spy said. Burton may have his hands full, however, given Oracle’s plan to embed XML routing and mapping into its database. Another spy asks why he’s doing what Microsoft already has in Zoomit, or whatever that metadirectory thingy is they bought a few years ago.
“XML routing and Web services” doesn’t come close to describing what we are doing at JanusLogix. XML routing and Web Services are lower level infrastructure services of the JanusLogix server. The JanusLogix server is creating a completley new set of services. The services are so unique we have decided to create a new category of services and give them a new name–The JanusLogix Web Services Nanosystem (JWSN).
It’s premature to lay out JWSN architecture just yet, but it won’t be long now.
Finally, JWSN is nothing like what my friends at Zoomit–now Microsoft Medadirectory Services (MMS)–are doing. JWSN is so different from what Oracle and Microsoft are doing, I would see both Oracle and Microsoft as potential customers.
However, just as Jamie Lewis and I coined the term “Metadirectory” which is now loosely used to define a specific category of directory services, expect Web Services Nanosystem to become a common term used for a specific category of Internet application services infrastructure.
Look for more here, and at the JanusLogix website, for more information as things develop.
I am so happy being back in the software business, I love it.
