RE: Web apps on the AS/400

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

> My point was that XML is a fantastic facilitator of 
> communcation between
> disparate systems.

The it was very well hidden ;-)
 
> Back to your point; when a person thinks "we need to tweak 
> the standard so that it ..." ... perhaps, PERHAPS, that 
> person needs to REALLY re-think their original assumption.
> That is, I'm perfectly willing to agree that the greater 
> minds at IBM, Microsoft, Sun, etc etc are smarter than I 
> am. I would be VERY VERY hesitant to mess with their work.

No, my point is that developers should be more aware of what's happening
outside of their companies own universe. Firstly, many of these same but
different 'standards' are caused by developers re-inventing the wheel yet
again - because they haven't looked to see if the wheel has already been
invented. Secondly, there are companies that create their own standards just
to strut about and say they have one, or worse to spite the other companies
in the same vertical market. Thirdly, the time to adoption of XML forced
companies to create their own, as they looked and nothing else was out
there, at the same time as someone else looked out and saw that there wasn't
a current existing standard - thus two (or n) 'standards' now exist and the
'not made here' mentality kicks in and everyone shies away from
collaborating on a single vertical market standard.


--phil
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