On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:22 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
> You've kinda answered your own question: in a closed architecture,
> it's
> overkill.
Not just closed, but closed and static. In other words, where you
will never ever need to interface with any future system.
We hear about systems that are in service for 10-20 years and are
still running. Imagine if the business it ran grew (horrors!) and
began adding additional systems that were written in "something else".
Wouldn't it be nice if that happened, and you didn't have to duplicate
your efforts in the new system?
XML is bloated compared to a binary format. What you have to ask
yourself is if choosing an inflexible binary to save some space or
bandwidth is a premature optimization or not. If the XML data took
100K and the binary took 20K, is that really terribly important on
your 1TB drive?
-- Ed Leafe
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