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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: REST
 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dare Obasanjo wrote: > Even more fruitful would be coming up with a number of business cases > and/or classes of XML usage patterns to use in judging how effective > the current crop of technologies are at meeting the needs of users and > how future specifications should and will fare. Dare: I think you hit the nail on the head! We all know there has been tremendously successful XML projects. However, these don't get publicized nearly as much as they should. We should look at these projects and determine what has made them successful. I think it would be a worthwhile exercise to categorize where XML has made a difference in the way way organizations to business. I think XML publishing is the most obvious success story. Organizations can now create content and slice and dice the content and publish it in any format desired. XSLT has been a great success story and I believe XSL-FO is proving to be a great technology. I am currently creating a stylesheet for legislation and I am really happy so far with the results. The content management systems have a lot of problems but companies are really doing some interesting stuff even without CMS. Another area where XML is a success is transporting transactions between disparate information systems that don't talk to each. XML is being used as the translation mechanism between these systems. Industries have come together to decide on their system messages. Middleware is being developed and all of a sudden you have systems talking to each other. The library community is currently doing this with library systems. The reality is that there are successes and most of these successes are accomplished without a lot of complexity. I don't know how you get the word out because decision makers don't read XML-DEV or XML Journal. They read Information Week, Wall Street Journal, GAO Reports, etc. It is in these arena's that word has to be given. Most of the technology articles written about XML are confusing. Until we take a success story to the marketplace there will be a perception of complexity, confusion and NRFPT (not ready for prime time) and finally TMA (too many acronyms). Betty /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | harvey@e... | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ 
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