[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
"Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...> writes: > Take your favorite antacid and check out > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2551691,00.html > > The essence of the article is that vertical industry B2B efforts are > flourishing but the "pure XML" efforts such as OASIS are not: > > "The losers are pie-in-the-sky XML-indoctrinated organizations, such > as the Microsoft-spearheaded BizTalk.org and OASIS. The automakers > chose to bypass BizTalk and OASIS to develop proprietary (but > published) schemata. Every big organization will do the same, and > though some of their XML work may feed back up to OASIS or BizTalk, > every one wants standards for their cliques only." I looked at the article, and it sounds about right (except for the headline and the conclusion) -- I never bet much on the success of schema repositories anyway. In a sense, this is our own marketing hype coming back to haunt us. Two years ago, everyone was pushing XML like a tower of Babel that magically make all data formats compatible. That sounded a lot better than the truth -- that XML is a simple, common layer for representing tree structures in a character stream -- but we certainly deserve our share of headlines like this now. Conclusion: XML is succeeding, but not by the criteria that many in the XML community originally set. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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