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Tatu Saloranta said: > --- Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote: > >> That is why, ultimately, the current XML efficiency >> problem is not with >> technology: not APIs, algorithms, CPU instruction >> sets. The XML >> efficiency problem is with motivating researchers >> and open source >> developers into areas that match corporate business >> requirements. > > With all due respect, this is undermining existing > efforts that do try to address various problems. Oh, if I cared much about respect I never would open my mouth :-) Obviously the proximate cause of technical advancement is people developing things. But the ultimate cause is people being motivated to develop things. In the case of open source, a company can motivate things by funding an open source front, such as Apache, or by allowing its engineers time to work on open source efforts, such as Google more or less, or by donating to a mission critical effort, for example to Michael Kay; but prizes are a *very* traditional approach to rewarding community effort without having the cost of funding each particular effort. I am really happy to hear Robin B's anouncement of the XML competition. It would be much more effective if some stakeholder could back this up with a cash incentive, and piggyback the kind of competition I am speaking of. Otherwise you get the situation of binary XML projects which are developed with VC funding or by larger companies competing against XML parsers which are largely developed by open source developers or by developers whose main interest is in architecting a solution that can fit in with XML Schemas, rather than raw performance per se. Cheers Rick a very traditional form of encouragement
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