Mike Champion defends WS-*, using WS-Management as one example:
On closer examination, WS-Management is widely used today in situations where the web-scale alternatives really don’t fit, such as deep within operating systems or in the firmware of chips.
Sorry, unconvincing. I plainly refuse to believe that something capable of processing WS-Transfer, WS-Management, SOAP, XML (all over TCP, as the bare minimum) doesn’t have enough power to run HTTP.
Likewise, I don’t believe the term “pragmatic ubiquity” belongs anywhere near a WS -* spec.