Cart
|
[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: AN N: RES
 When designing an XML specification, when creating an Internet specification, I can agree. When creating an XML application, I can't. This isn't short term business perspective; it is a focused perspective on particular businesses. Unless XML provides value for money, it simply doesn't go into the RFP. If not there, not sold. If not sold, not of interest to business. That is what the USA article is about: getting value for money from technology. We all have passions, causes, reasonable society enhancing agendas. XML can be part of that, but I believe that even there, saying a thing is good for its own sake is a dangerous assertion of religious zeal, not common sense. If a URI string is a very large packed with data string and some delimiters, isn't it just yetAnotherDelimitedAscii bag with spec'd delimiters? What are the criteria for choosing it over XML? len From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Until you understand that this IS about business, > XML IS just another whiz-bang technology and not > worth spending time or money on. I would really appreciate it if you could at least acknowledge that business decision-making is not the ONLY criteria for spending time and/or money on technology. You don't have to come around to my perspective that business decision-making is in fact a very bad influence on the technology development process, but I've had far more than enough business-supremacy for one lifetime. Short-term business vision seems to be a pretty good explanation for an enormous amount of foul nastiness currently roaming the XML world. I'd rather talk angle brackets than dollar signs, and suspect that both the angle brackets and the dollar signs might get something out of the conversation. 
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! 
Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|
|||||||||
