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RE: Why 90 percent of XML standards will fail

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:11:14 -0600

"John R. Rymer is principal consultant and founder of Upstream Consulting, a
strategy-consulting 
group in Emeryville, Calif. Upstream has developing business strategies for
several XML technology companies."

So he is a bear in the woods doing what bears do, then offering a map of
places not to drink 
and collecting a fee for being an upstream bear.

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]

Supposed to be on ZDNet somewhere, but I saw it on Yahoo.  The guy's
right, of course, but remember Theodore Sturgeon's Law of Popular Art
Forms, which extends nicely to XML (or any other) standards; it says:

 "95% of everything is crap".

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010226/tc/why_90_percent_of_xml_standards_
will_fail_1.html

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