They basicly want to turn the Internet in to a giant client/server system on a huge wide-area network. You want to run office? No problem. Just connect to one of MS' handy dandy quick and easy Office Servers (tm) and run office accross the network .. all for the low low price of $9.95 / month.
OK .. so there's more to it than that, but that's basicly what they are talking about when they talk about "Web Services". It's a new marketing twist on an old idea that failed 2 years ago. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: Microsoft wants to kill http? > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-845220.html > This is so dumb. What is Microsoft's angle? Anyway the article pissed me off > enough that I wrote the below rant to zdnet. :) If someone could clue me in > to what Microsoft may be thinking, I'd be very grateful. > > Who said Web Services have to use HTTP? The leading standard for calling a > web service that exists right now is SOAP, and SOAP does not specify a port > to use, nobody has said that regular web servers have to get and resond to > Soap traffic... Either way, it was Microsoft's idea in the first place to > require HTTP for Soap, now they are saying it has limitations? That makes no > sense. On top of it all, SOAP is just another way of saying RPC. So, MS's > Soap protocol is XML-RPC's competition, and now MS is worried that RPC over > HTTP is limited by HTTP?? > > The second part about P2P is them babbling about the way the web works, it's > always been a stateless environment. Why the heck do we need both sides to > initiate connections over http? Do you want to be sitting on a web site that > all of the sudden opens a connection to your browser and starts sending > something? As for http not being interoperable, tell that to the Gnutella > people. The entire Gnutella network uses HTTP, and it works great. There > isn't really an overriding reason to use http, but it's familiar and it > works. > > So what exactly is the problem with http? > > Jon Hall ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
