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Re: SOAP and the Web

• To: Didier PH Martin <martind@n...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP and the Web
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:31:53 -0400
• Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>, "Bullard, Claude L Len\"" <clbullar@i...>, "'Andrew Dubinsky'" <andy@e...>, "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <010201c1f141$00199790$6401a8c0@didierhome>; from martind@n... on Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:50:01PM -0400
• References: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B3CB@HQ5> <20020501125615.A16533@w...> <010201c1f141$00199790$6401a8c0@didierhome>

Hi Didier,

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:50:01PM -0400, Didier PH Martin wrote:
> a) Amounts of available money to experiment. Just remember how much money
> has been invested in the web.

The Web exhibited its infamous growth curve long before any money was
behind it.

http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/net/web-growth-summary.html

> Sorry to kill illusions with a such utilitarian approach.

Nice try, but no cigar. 8-)

There's simple, though non-obvious reasons why the common use of SOAP
will never see this type of growth.  Primarily, it's because the a
priori contract that is present between a SOAP sender and a SOAP
receiver is insufficient to generate any network effects.  HTTP provides
a much richer contract.  And for that matter, so does FTP, SMTP, and
every other application protocol in existence.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com

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