“...Speaking about customers:  thank you very much for all the business you have provided us during this gloomy summer.  Despite the depressed outlook you continue to buy our products at a solid pace.  BTW: our client list over the last month has included an extremely high percentage of the biggest names in industry, academia, and media.  Thank you

This proves two points:

1) The demand for low cost, user-driven, content management is growing quickly.  98% of sites on the Internet (and organizational Intranets) are static flat files that need to move to an end-user driven content management framework.  This will help them shave costs,  improve flexibility, and keep end-users happy.

2) Companies and Universities are starting to deploy K-Logs networks.  Ground up knowledge sharing via K-Logs is turning into an increasingly powerful counter-weight to big vendor top-down integrated portals.  Why?  K-Logs provide a low cost of entry, organic growth, higher rates of participation, and observable results.”

It is still too soon to tell, but it may be that I was wrong. I certainly hope so.
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The XML Way. XML-awareness should not be optional [Tim Ewald's Ideas about XML and Web Services]

I like what Tim has to say in this brief article. As an implementor of web services, I want the freedom to choose whether I work with an XML document (as passed in a SOAP doc/literal message) or a set of objects derived from the XML document. I often prefer the former because of the capabilities the XML toolset gives me for manipulating it. I am sure this can be done in .Net, but I am not sure how. Any smart .Netters want to jump in with some ideas?
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