Subject: RE: XAML - What does it mean to us?
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I have
been quietly lurking in the background of the various ebXML and other newsgroups
for some months now, soaking up knowledge when and where it presents itself. I
had the opportunity to use that acquired knowledge recently in a gig as Senior
Business Analyst at CommerceQuest, and look forward to learning more and using
XML in my next work, wherever that may be.
I
speak up now, uninvited, to make an observation and to ask a
question.
The
collaboration and contaminant politicking I see here appeared healthy to me
until just a week or two ago. That's when I first began to wonder if a) this
group was really a group, and 2) whether a single standard would ever exist,
this one or any other. The e-mail discussions regarding this working group's
relationship with others, with W3C, indeed with and to the market you intend to
serve, seem now distant and disdainful. The comments and work efforts of the
various working groups make me wonder if you are all working on the same
project. I had...have, great hopes that this group could help bring standards
for XML to the workplace.
I see
here some of the best minds at the top companies....drifting further from each
other, much less a standard.
My
question is this...In the light of XAML and other standards efforts underway, is
there any desire, any chance, that we (Me and the rest of the working putz's who
actually have to model b2b transactions), will see a standard? Will you all
agree to work with XAML and other bodies on one form of communication? After all
- if there are two versions there is no standard. That leaves us right where we
started.
Thank
you in advance for your feedback.
Ed
Manley
Momentarily unemployed Business Analyst and Technical
Writer
Resume
available at http://personal.bhm.bellsouth.net/~edmanley - please pass it on to anyone looking for a good
man!
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