WS-Trans­ac­tion un­der OASIS cus­tody!

Ru­mors had been around for a while that this might hap­pen, and it did: the WS-Trans­ac­tion specs (pro­pri­etary work un­til re­cent­ly) are now un­der the cus­tody of the OASIS stan­dards body: http://www.oa­sis-open.org/com­mit­tees/tc_home.php?wg_ab­brev=ws-tx

Ven­dors sup­port­ing the WS-TX ini­tia­tive in­clude BEA Sys­tems, IBM, Mi­crosoft, Or­a­cle, SAP and TIBCO. This sounds like the kind of in­dus­try mo­men­tum need­ed to push ac­cep­tance in the mar­ket:-)

The new stan­dard­iza­tion com­mit­tee is open to any­body - I would par­tic­i­pate too if it weren't for the strict IPR poli­cies used by OASIS...