At 01:37 PM 7/13/2004 -0400, Matthew MacKenzie wrote: >Ed, > >When I started out with ebXML, I was hoping for a revolution. That was >overly idealistic, for the reasons you state. > >Evolution, however, is inevitable. I agree that evolution is inevitable, and I've always held that the move to [eb]XML would be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. However, evolution often tries a lot of dead ends before coming up with a species that survives. It will be interesting to see how well ebXML and web services do. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting www.rawlinsecconsulting.com Using XML with Legacy Business Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003) www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321154940 The ebxml-dev list is sponsored by OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/>
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