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Personal opinion... Andrew Watt: >And I think they also have in mind a much more nuanced marketing approach. Their approach is as nuanced as the top notch in a food chain. >InfoPath as a dynamic XML-enabled forms frontend for a whole raft of business- >critical backend information handling processes based on XML Web Services. I hope their strategy has more legs than just Web Services. Surprisingly few are using WS technology beyond XML-over-http for "enterprise" services. >Thus when OpenOffice fully catches up MS will have moved the game on to a new >target. :) ... InfoPath. I often wonder what the OO folks have planned. It would be pretty straightforward to make a nice GUI InfoPath-like application minus the vendor lock-in part. >So InfoPath will be sold as a quantum leap above "plain old" Office Well, a "quantum leap" is the physically smallest change possible, right? ;-) Uche is right: Any investment made into deploying native InfoPath leads to more lock-in. Customers hate that. It will be interesting to watch how the market plays out; just how much customers are willing to tolerate lock-in. >Second, it looks very much as if InfoPath and XForms will be fighting out a >battle for a very important new space - the XML forms-derived data space. Not much of a "battle" in the XForms 1.0 / InfoPath 2003 time frame. see http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3001 >XML-based forms looks to be a space to watch very closely. Agreed. .micah --- Check out "XForms Essentials", to be published by O'Reilly in 2003. Full review text at http://dubinko.info/writing/xforms/
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