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I agree. I offer that commentary to those who harbor illusions of frictionless commerce, or that one degree of separation is as easy as a pickup in a singles bar. Lasting relationships are made of tough commitments... made upfront and tested on delivery and before acceptance. I don't want to predict the future; I want to constrain it. There are some benefits. With Internet services, the lack of humans in the loop may make some forms of insider shenanigans a little less likely because the game is exposed. I can't speak for other business entities out there, but if we fail to deliver on time and in accordance with the signed documents, a thing called "liquidated damages" goes into effect. It may be that some of the sellers and buyers are going to have to get sharper about these issues and learn to operate this way. And yes, XML-Dev is exactly the place to air out issues if the technology fails to live up to the promises made in writing. Very valuable even when painful. If people accept promises not made in writing or take the brochures/UDDI at face value, then nature eliminates the unfit. If it comes down to the spirit of the law or the letter of the law, the judge is a lot more likely to rule fairly where there are signatures, and as far as I know, ghost writing is hard to xerox. len From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] For better or worse, I think the environment you're describing is only a small part of the technology universe. To some extent it's that only organizations of a certain size can invest the time in such contracts, but even such contract-based organizations often have technology arrive through backdoors or upgrades. Industrial users are wise to protect themselves this way - ripping plumbing out of a factory (to extend the metaphor) is much more difficult than ripping plumbing out of a house or office, though neither is pleasant. Unfortunately, my experience (and worse, my behavior on prior projects) suggests that such careful procurement is hardly the rule. Even people who are away of the risks of "caveat vendor" often find themselves bound in unexpected ways, and telling the future is difficult. There's no Underwriters Laboratory here. It seems to me that xml-dev offers at least discussion, if not formal testing, with a bit more care taken than a lot of other sources of information. To me, that's hugely valuable.
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