Saturday, September 21, 2002

Simon obviously knows far more than I do about who is involved in SOAPBuilders, hosting the next SOAPBuilders F2F and Interop in general, so I'll trust him when he says Sun is now making an earnest effort on standard XML Web Services. I defer to his expertise in this area. I'll still stand by most of the comments in the rest of the "rant", which I sincerely did not intend to be one by any stretch. Their rhetoric on Passport is getting old and is completly false. I have implemented dozens of ASP.NET Web Services and not a single one of them ever needed Passport or anything like it. When they make statements like ""Microsoft can obliterate the value on the desktop, including forcing you to sign up for Passport [Microsoft's Internet identity plan]," he said." As I have said this kind of FUD is just plain false. There is nothing in ASP.NET or anything .NET forcing you to Passport and I see Microsoft people making great strides towards Interop. Thats my point. 1:20:14 AM

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