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Re: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

• To: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:09:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20020914232900.2F74D5542@c...>

> before using other technologies -- if you had a reason to. All that 
> Distributed Services Nirvana the architecture astronauts are blathering about 
> was promised to us in the past, if we used DCOM, or JavaBeans, or OSF DCE, or 
> CORBA."

(I was the OSF DCE Technical Lead.  At times I am seriously amused by 
watching web services re-create what DCE offered years ago.)

There's a fundamental difference between then and now.  For the first 
time, *everyone* is providing the same distributed systems 
infrastructure.  As an application person, I don't have to get a JRE on 
every machine, or put a Corba/IIOP engine on the desktop, etc.   The 
barrier to deployment of distributed applicaitons -- and soon, secure 
distributed applications -- is nearly zero.  That's an important first.

Joel, an MSFT type, either doesn't see or doesn't appreciate this.
	/r$

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