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<quote by='Sebastian Rahtz'> It seems to be a disease of the computer industry to rush things to market. Who else would ever do this? Does your car have a ReadMe.First document? your video player? It's hard to accept that a few weeks is important in the life of a serious bit of software. Isnt it indicative of firefight bugfixing? </quote> I don't think it is totally the computer industry's fault. When I was working on a highly available telecom platform (>50 programmers and testers at the peak, >$30 mil. lifetime, I think) seven years ago, the contract with customers had penalty clauses for the quality of the system we built (software and hardware). When I designed a highly available platform (~20 programmers and testers at the peak, $3 mil.) two years ago for a big telecom alliance, they basically only cared about when we could deliver the platform with acceptable quality (which was not spelt out, at least to us low-life architects and programmers). Same industry, same customers, totally different expectations since we began the Internet era. What has this to do with XML? Well, last year, it took us one week to decide to use XML for the biggest project (5 programmers and 2 testers, $3 mil.) we got. In the old days, in my previous company, it took us more than one year to decide to move from a proprietary protocol stack to OSI. In other words, XML would not be adopted so quickly in the old cautious, quality-or-be-fined, time, whatever merits it has. Regards, Khun Yee *************************************************************************** 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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