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Peter Zingg writes: > Microsoft and global domination. You can bet that all of the MS > data access and programming tools (ADO, OLE DB, VB, VC++) will be > built around it. I wouldn't make any such bet. I'm not a Windows developer myself, but I've heard a lot of grumbling about MS abandoning its own technologies frequently and with little or no notice. > What would you do if you wanted to commit to a company-wide XML > strategy today? No competent system architect should ever design a system architecture around vendor-specific interfaces and specs except in the direst need (and even then, she's probably better to quit and try to salvage what's left of her reputation). If you use vendor-specific stuff, move it to behind generic interfaces where it can easily be changed without damaging the rest of the system; otherwise, it will be Microsoft (or Sun or IBM or Adobe or Texcel or what have you) who will be deciding the future evolution, maintenance schedule, and lifespan of your system for you, and you'll just be a helpless spectator. So far, that's all system-architecture motherhood and apple pie (or social welfare and poutine, up here in Central Canada). The less obvious point is that open standards like XML, CORBA, etc. also really don't belong in the high-level system design: they should have nothing to do with *what* your system does, only with *how* your system does it, and that's an implementation detail. If there are parts of a planned or existing system that could benefit from using XML in their implementations, then by all means, introduce some XML. Start small to see if and how you're getting a real benefit from the XML, then gradually introduce XML into other parts of the system until you feel confident that you're getting the most benefit from it. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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