On 9/14/06, Ron Schmelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Furthermore, Sun can't even sell software. They know only how to sell > hardware and give the software away. So, it's no surprise that he overstates > problems and misunderstands technologies. I have listening long enough to Tim > Bray to come to that conclusion independently.
Tim Bray misunderstanding technology? 8-O Come on Ron, you're a fine, prodigous analyst and all, but when you jumped on the Web services bandwagon, I presume you did it because everybody else was hopping on, not because you, personally, evaluated the implicit architectural style being proposed and concluded it possessed the necessary architectural properties for addressing the problems it was being presented as a solution for. Software architecture is damned hard, and distributed systems architecture even harder, and I hope you don't take offense (because none is intended) when I say that neither are "your thing". But they are Tim's. So when he says "The emperor has no clothes", if I were you, I'd take a step back and start reevaluating some of the basic assumptions of Web services. He doesn't give his reasoning in that interview, but you only need read my weblog for the past few years (once my server resurrects, hopefully tomorrow), or the archives of any of xml-dev, xml-dist-app, www-ws-arch, or even this list to find the **technical arguments** for why Tim is right. Cheers, Mark. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/