Friday, January 25, 2002

This is geek heaven!  Here is a link to a treasure trove of W3C position papers on Web Services. 7:58:30 PM     I don't know how long this interview with Dave will remain up. It is a great summary of the state of SOAP as well as a discussion of real world applications that make sense and work. I especially liked the comment that with Vignette, BroadVision or Interwoven you'd be lucky if you could edit your own home page after 6 months of rollout. 6:11:47 PM     Food for thought: Here is a breakdown of some financials of the "anything but Microsoft crowd" versus Microsoft itself. Who do you suppose will win? Oracle - Cash 4.96B    Debt/Equity 0.05 BEA    - Cash 987M    Debt/Equity 0.87 IBM    - Cash 6.39B    Debt/Equity 1.15 Sun      - Cash 1.85B   Debt/Equity  0.27 MS      - Cash 38 B     Debt/Equity  0 9:58:29 AM     Leave it to the BBC to describe Microsoft's plans reasonably well. I think they missed one small point. MS also wants a piece of as many transactions that execute across the Net as possible. In other words part of .NET entails MS circumventing some of the $$ that traditionally have gone to the banks. 9:32:26 AM     Dan - your free ride is coming to an end <g> 9:24:17 AM     This sort of thing makes me wonder how the Linux community would fare in a similar situation. Having a central point of responsibility makes a big difference with corporate IT managers. 9:20:13 AM     J2SE faster than MS? I'd wait and see. 9:16:26 AM

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