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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >... > > XML won, so Arbortext has to merge or die. I would appreciate if you could back up that assertion. For example if you could outline a concrete scenario where Arbortext would have been killed (by whom?) had they not merged. This is of more than academic interest to me as an employee of Blast Radius XMetaL. My impression is that Arbortext was as successful and stable as they have ever been. One of the financial details that has been released since the announcement is this: product prices had been RISING at the same time that their sales volume was rising. It does not sound like a company on death's door. Even if this is xml-dev, I think you are rather markup obsessed. XML is the new ASCII. Arbortext was in the business of content creation and publishing. They were not (as of 2005) in the business of markup any more than BEA is in the business of HTTP or Sun is in the business of TCP/IP. Paul Prescod
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