… One-quarter of web services projects are initiated by company directors, not technical staff, according to a poll of ‘almost 100’ developers and IT directors conducted by development tools company Borland.
… A survey by research company MyBusiness.net, which challenged departmental heads to correctly define web services, found only one-quarter of the sample were able to do so.
An explanation? Perhaps every single executive who understands the technology goes on to initiate a web services project.