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Re: Microsoft on XML

• To: Frank Richards <frank@t...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Microsoft on XML
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 05:46:23 -0800
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Frank Richards wrote:
>...
> 
> I honestly believe that you're just gosh-wow about all this kewl new
> stuff, but you wouldn't go to an SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
> meeting and expect them to get excited that Bill Ford thinks hybrid
> vehicles have a future, would you? You just did that, with 8 guys from
> Ford R&D here, and the rest of the room full of their colleagues from
> GM, Mack Truck. and John Deere.

Actually, yes. If Microsoft's excitement about XML was new then it would 
have been interesting in relevant. In fact I guarantee I can go back and 
find threads of amazement about the interest in XML at high levels of 
various organizations. But I agree that today it is a little redundant.

  Paul Prescod

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