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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 02:33 am, Paul Prescod wrote: > The big guy will dictate to the little guy but if there are true > standards, not pseudo-standards, then the little guy will be able to > buy off the shelf software that conforms to the big-guy's wishes, > rather than making custom software to the big guy's spec. Yep. The problem is that the standards are necessarily not global... they are tweaked to the needs of a local community. I have come to the conclusion that it is *impossible* to define standards for semantic exchange of information (ie. taxonomies/vocabularies/whatever) that don't have some degree of corruption/variance on the edges. For XML/EDI, I always thought XML could *finally* make it easier for the "big guy" to provide the needed tools for communication. As you say, the little guy would buy COTS, and then install the vendor-specific extensions needed for communication.
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