Microsoft, along with the additional members of OASIS, including IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Intel, Nokia, Novell, Red Hat, and others, made an important step toward the finalization of core Web services standards. February 5, 2009 marked the approval of no less than nine new versions of Web services specifications as OASIS standards. The WS Reliable Exchange (WS-RX), WS Transactions (WS-TX), and WS Secure Exchange (WS-SX) standards support reliable message exchange, coordinate the outcome of distributed application actions, and enable trusted relationships.

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