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Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????

• From: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...>
• To: <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:01:43 -0400

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From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@e...>
To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...>; <xml-dev@x...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????



> > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies.
>
> Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year.
> http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml
>

You got me there!  Ballmer's hype is pretty monumental, paraphrased later in
this article as "Ballmer's optimism that XML will flawlessly usher in a new
means of doing business." So I can see how a reasonable journalist could
feel the need to deflate this particular hype balloon.

Thanks for setting me straight ... it's scary to look back on such hype; it
reminds me of 1997 or so when Java was hyped as the Windows-killing
universal client... and of 1998 when it was considered a failure for not
sending Bill G. to the poorhouse.  We should probably get ready for a spate
of "XML didn't solve the world's problems, so it's dead" articles. Sigh.


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