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 Dare Obasanjo wrote: > > Was that a serious answer? The fact that millions of people communicate > using software that talks a proprietary protocol on the Internet somehow > translates to that being a killer web service platform? Some people have a strong faith that the most important thing is the quality and applicability of a technology. Obviously they are often wrong. Other people have a strong faith that the nuts and bolts of a technology are irrelevant as long as it works in some very basic functional sense. They figure that you can find the holes and patch them later. They are often wrong also. Len Bullard and Dave Winer are expressing the latter view with respect to web services. They figure that whatever is widely deployed will work good enough and achieve traction. My sense is that we are miles away from "working good enough" if the problem domain is as described here: "The ultimate goal of Web services, many vendors say, is to let Internet applications interact with each other the same way humans interact with them. Exactly how that will happen remains unclear, but Web services proponents say just as the Internet is navigated by humans using Web browsers, applications will be able to navigate the Web and interact using emerging Web service standards. Web services promise to offer a standard API that will let any two companies conduct e-business transactions, regardless of their IT infrastructure. The technology lets one company's inventory management application interact with a trading partner's product shipping application, even if the applications are running on different platforms. And emerging standards will help companies locate potential business partners based on the services the partners offer, and ensure that their respective apps can work together. " * http://www.internetweek.com/indepth01/indepth041001.htm One can hardly blame Dave and Len for their techno-agnosticism in a world where DOS had a 15 year reign and more people program in Visual Basic than Eiffel. Nevertheless there are cases where the details of a technology does matter and it is admittedly frustrating as a technologist that it is trendy to wave that away. But my consolation is that technology matters so strongly in this case that the dominance of the global namespace point of view is inevitable. The technology world is littered with the carcasses of technologies that tried to go up against the global namespace and failed. "Keep 'em coming." Paul Prescod 
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