According to a recently released IDC study, the vendor community has shifted its primary attention from Web services creation to that of more robust consumption. This includes security, management, messaging and event processing.

IDC reports that $2.3 billion was spent worldwide on total Web services software in 2004. This is more than double the amount from the previous year. IDC expects spending to continue to increase dramatically over the next 5 years, reaching approximately $14.9 billion by 2009.

"Web services are expected to become even more pervasively used throughout the entire computing stack," said Sandra Rogers, program director for SOA, Web Services, and Integration research at IDC.

According to Netcraft, ICANN and VeriSign will consider changes to the new .net registry agreement in response to a mass protest by major domain name registrars, who said the deal represented a "breach of trust" between ICANN and the registrar community.

Equinix, Inc. (www.equinix.com) will hold its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. PT). The company will discuss second quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2005 and outlook for the third quarter 2005.

France Telecom Group, with its fully-owned subsidiary Equant, and Cisco Systems Inc. announced that they have been selected by Airbus for a five-year contract to implement an IP (Internet Protocol) telephony solution.

Dell announced the PowerEdgeTM  SC430 will be among the first servers to feature the enhanced performance enabled by Intel's new dual-core processor technology.

SWsoft announced that PowerVPS has selected SWsoft’s Virtuozzo for Windows.

This week, The PlanetSM announced it is part of the global Fingerprint
Sharing Initiative - an alliance between Arbor Networks and some of the
world's most prominent telecommunications companies, ISPs, MSOs, Web hosting companies and network operators.

AT&T announced it has won a $27 million global networking contract from Whirlpool Corporation, the world leader in the manufacturing and marketing of major home appliances.

WestHost Inc. has launched the CM4all WebsiteCreator as OEM customer of CM-AG. Since 1998, WestHost has been offering quality web hosting services as an affordable leader in the industry of low cost internet services.

Sonasoft Corp. announced the availability of its unique Disaster Recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange server. The new offering is an affordable and easy to use solution specifically designed for addressing the pain points of SMB customers.

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