oops, i posted this before I had finished (both argument and proofing) so it's full of typos, poor gramma and some missing syntax!
But i hope the trajectory is clear... --- In [email protected], "Garry Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [author's note: This is a bit of long one, adn not really about > developments in SVG, but where SVG fits into the big picture of > business and economics and why XML is better (than what?)] > > The argument for XML is not really a technological one, but a > business and economic one. Which technologies to use is not a > discussion that business strategists are having right now, and it is > certainly not one that economists are having either. > > And you should beleive that IT strategists are NOT in the driving > seat (that was a temporaray blip through dot.com madness), they are > not even the navigators any longer. The have be backlined to > technicans seat (again). > > The full investment cycle for business/government is a long time (7- > 11 years) and ask any economist they will tell you that the new > technology driver is a) expanding the cycle not shortening it and b) > reinvestment is globally directed at margin extratction not at IT > investment. > > Info Technology has been (rightly IMHO) demoted back to toolkit. But > there is an intersting shift here that is important to this > discussion about XML, as shareholders would like to see the ROI they > were promised at the the begining of this cycle stabilised to yeild > (ie coverting their investment into regualar stable dividends). > Shareholders are saying you have invested our money in all this kit > that can talk to one and other, so let it talk... > > XML is better because because it makes for interoperability, and in > the new business world metricification neccesitates interoperability. > And because XML has validation, it scores highly for interoperability. > > All capitalised Business has two meta-rules: externalise costs; > internalise revenue. (Any one who operates outside of this rule-set > is having a laugh a the expense of someone elses' capital reserve.) > > From an economic point of view the metrification of this rule-set is > the key consolidated reason d'etre of IT. And in a changing global > economy (rapid expansion of the business footprint globally, to the > structural tranformation of the business population) requires that > business units can talk to one and other easily, cost-effectivily and > transparently. > > Administrators in both Business and government need to share metrics. > The so-called 'economic miracle' of the dot.com era was that we saw a > rapidaly expanding number of business transactions, yet the amortised > cost of the transactions hardly changed - partcualy when the cost of > IT was discounted against the necessary re-invetment and > capitalisation. This is what made dot.com so sexy. > > While the spotlight for dot.com was on business-to-consumer > tranasctions, and the partially exposed business-to-busines model, > what economic analysts began to see was that the real long term > benefits of this technology was instrinsic metrification of the whole > business cycle and producting business descision frameworks that > were both shorter in timescale and wider in coverage making it > possible to make more cost-benefical decisisons. This even tirumphs > over the content-specific industries (new and old) because it is the > same semantic. > > And this understanding is now being widely adopted at the root of the > investment cycle: with corporate investors. An emerging consensus has > appeared that says the ROI for IT is in greater metrification. This > is the discussion that business strategist and economists are > having: How we our existing IT investment help use externalise costs > and internalise revenue? > > Economic gain from IT in the last 25 years (stretching over 4/5 years > economic cycles) has seem more yield from back-end integration than > front-office fulfillment. Inverstors would like to see more of this. > And more of this is delivered through interoperability. > > The business community (and governments) have already started turning > this super-tanker in the direction of interoprability and XML is due > North. The investor community now has a healthy cyncisim towards IT- > hype, and the lag in economic understanding about the what IT does > for business is closing. We have moved to a paradigm where IT > investment must now be consolidated by increasing interoperability. > > This is what XML offers. Consolidation of invetment and increased > operability across business-functions (internally and externally). > > SVG is part of this paradigm. It is a cliche that "one picture can > speak a thousand words" and thats why you, dear reader, are on this > list. You know that there is a requirement to present consolidated > metrics in graphical format - what ever it is you are metrifying. > > My engagement with SVG has been relatively recent - and I'm a weird > species of econmist/developer/researcher/analyst/strategist - but in > this period I have seen a very common element to all the workings of > this community and what you/we are trying to do with XML/SVG: make > better decisions that cost less yet have more impact. > > Having a common, underlying language/framework that enables to do > this is why SVG being in XML better. > > > > > > > > > > > Business likes standards - do not let the anti-regulation talk fool > you - but they are happy to have competeting standards and XML will > be one of them > > --- In [email protected], "Francis Hemsher" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Latine loqui coactus sum... > > Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora > > > > --- In [email protected], "domenico_strazzullo" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Chris Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > censeo DTDem esse delendam > > > > > > Quod censueris faciam. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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