Re: [regrep] 20 reasons why web services are like Paris Hilton

["Matthew MacKenzie" <mattm@adobe.com>]

I just wish the web services picture was a bit clearer and in focus.  I'm sure there is something interesting to see there, its just too dark and out of focus.

:-)

On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:16 PM, David RR Webber wrote:

> Joe,
>
> The most irreverent answer!
>
> #20 - everyone is talking about web services
> #19 - there are more people thinking about web services than doing them
> #18 - web service articles are everywhere in magazines - but noone is
>           quite certain about the accuracy of the details in them
> #17 - proven benefits of web services are hard to show but if people see
>           you doing web services they will try and mingle in with your group
> #16 - everyones trying to figure out how they can cash-in on web services
> #15 - web services sound and look young, tight and amazing in the glossy
> magazines
> #14 - web services can change their look rapidly and without warning
> #13 - everyone has their own ideas about how they'd like to do web services
> #12 - its hard to describe to your neighbours what you are doing with web
> services
> #11 - people who are not really doing web services will say they are anyway
> #10 - a lot of rich people and PR machines are behind web services
> #9 - web services looks like its just life on a beach but in reality its
> much more
>         confusing and complex than that
> #8 - the long term consequences of doing web services could result in some
>        unforeseen side effects from things that might be revelled later that
> took
>        place earlier that you did not know about
> #7 - getting a legal agreement before doing web services is really tough,
>        most people are doing it anyway while they have the chance and
>        hoping it will all be alright later
> #6 - web services are all over the internet and in junk mail
> #5 - web services are young, make a lot of noise, and some of the things
>         they do are crude and shocking
> #4 - doing things with web services probably means alot of late nights
>         and having to fix up messy loose ends before someone notices
> #3 - there is no standard way of doing web services but people will take
>        anything that web services are doing and then sell them for as much
>        as they can get
> #2 - web services are trying to become things that they are not, but would
>         like to be somehow
> #1 - web services can do absolutely anything you want them to do - and in
>         ways you never even thought possible.
>
>
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