I think Jonathon Schwartz (President/COO, Sun Microsystems) just joined the loyal WS opposition:
5. Web services may collapse under its own weight.
No one at the conference said this. Those are my words. I'm beginning to feel that all the disparate web service specs and fragmented standards activities are way out of control. Want proof? Ask one of your IT folks to define web services. Ask two others. They won't match. We asked folks around the room - it was pretty grim. It's either got to be simplified, or radically rethought.
As you know, I also believe simplicity and volume always win - and that today's web services initiatives are in danger of vastly overcomplicating a very simple (really simple) solution.
What's been apparent to those in the trenches for the past year or two is finally starting to find its way up the chain of command.