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on the wire time
at this stage xml is a core technology - you have no way of knowing how 
much is out there.

right now we use xml for message exchange within the organisation (why - 
tools, data independence in face of a changing app, etc etc ) with 
thousands of messages a day moving between machines.

soon our point of sale systems will be using xml for continuous real 
time updates - then the transaction rate over hundreds of shops will 
reach very high rates.

can we stress the technology? not yet. does it keep up in real time? 
well and truly.

why is it so important? grids or otherwise, the future is message 
exchange and xml, warts and all, is by far the best most general way to 
do it. it has the standards, the tools. performance and functionality 
improve every day. all it lacks is gloss. being infrastructure it's not 
nearly as sexy as say 3d graphics, but it makes my job easier day by day 
(and as a result more profitable :) ).

rick

David Lyon wrote:

>Michael,
>
>On Friday 28 January 2005 04:03 am, Michael Kay wrote:
>
>  
>
>>anyone who thinks they can assess the level of use in a
>>given country is making wild guesses and is almost certainly wrong.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, but making sweeping generalisations like I do and then
>arguing them over beer is often more fun than being right :-)
>
>Actually, I have to revise my original generalisation or at least
>clarify it somewhat.
>
>XML use is slowly increasing, yes. So anybody selling xml
>products would see more interest in them, of course.
>
>My revised generalisation is that transmitted xml on-the-wire
>is not growing that fast, or as fast as one would expect.
>
>One customer just this week, needs to get xml working
>between the web site and quick-books. It's not coming
>from the customer.. just an in-house transfer...
>
>Where there are xml transmitting applications, most seem to
>replace apps that previously existed which did exactly the 
>same thing. ie tax apps. Online tax applications have existed
>for years, now they transmit in xml. Is that a new application?
>or just a rewrite of an old one.
>
>Let's move onto xml in accounting. Quickbooks can support
>xml. Xml can be used to "load" and "read" data in and out
>of the products.
>
>But widespread on-the-wire use of xml from one accounting
>system to the other isn't popular as far as I know.
>
>Therefore the product "has" xml, but I would argue doesn't "use"
>it in an on-the-wire sense.
>
>And in thousands of small businesses, very few that I
>have seen (ok - limited vision) have on-the-wire xml.
>
>If xml doesn't need to be like this then fine. I'll admit
>being sold the wrong idea.
>
>I still subscribe to the vision of getting all the Small businesses
>out there, who have this outragiously powerful hardware and
>communications bandwidth to be able to really stress the
>xml parsers to the max... and I just don't believe this is
>happening yet....
>
>Ok, I waste my time doing doing multi-connection xml
>protocols. Developing multi-processing xml search engines
>and stuff - why? I don't think xml is developed to the max
>quite yet. I still think there is much further to go with the
>stuff. When I say not used, I probably mean not used to
>the max.... and I think it will take some time for me to
>be convinced otherwise no matter how "wrong" I may
>seem on the face of it.
>
>
>David
>
>
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