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Swingtide gathers Web services stats

Martin LaMonica Former Staff writer, CNET News
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld.
Martin LaMonica
Web services startup Swingtide said it will ship a product Monday that monitors and analyzes network traffic generated by Web services applications. is one of several small companies looking to provide management tools to improve the performance and reliability of applications written to adhere to Web services standards based on Extensible Markup Language (XML). Swingtide Monitor, a $49,995 application, gathers statistics on network traffic, tracks whether applications adhere properly to standards and measures how much an application is being used, company executives said.