The CIO of a 2 billion dollar accounting firm that handles movie and
media events accounting for the likes of Warner Brothers and Disney,
is on our team... he was just here in my office yesterday, explaining
to me to be "very cautious" about using of web services. Warner
Brother's forced them into it and he says the kajillion lines of code
that have evolved from this decision... just to do the simple of
things, where all that is really happening is a very little bit of
data is moving via an XML protocol from one machine to another, is
costing everybody, big time...he said "don't go there!"
just FYI.
On Nov 09, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I almost labeled this post off-topic since our purpose here is to
discuss how to use Revolution. But I decided on balance that it
affects everyone here, so I left off the [OT].
I've just posted a blog entry at http://www.eclecticity.com/.
3c66aaec that I believe should be of interest to everyone who is in
the programming universe today. I've been leaning in this direction
for years, drawn strongly to it for the past few months, and have
now tipped over the edge. Some will think I'm over the edge,
alright, but perhaps not in the way I intended.
My prediction -- based on a lot of evidence and clinched by two
leaked Microsoft memos that you really need to read (they're
indirectly linked in my blog entry) -- is that the days of the
desktop app are indeed finally numbered. At best, we will see
desktops reduced to being containers for ultra-thin clients and
specialized Internet browsing tools while *everything else* runs as
a (probably ad-supported) Web service.
Yeah, I know. You've heard this before. And there's a lot of
skepticism here and elsewhere on the Net. But Ray Ozzie's no idiot
and Microsoft's not ignorant or stupid (whatever else they may well
be).
Comments welcome, though I'd appreciate it if you'd register for my
blog (it's free) and post them there even if you choose to echo
them here. This issue is much bigger than Rev but it affects
everyone on this list, IMNSHO.
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Dan Shafer
Technology Visionary - Technology Assessment - Documentation
"Looking at technology from every angle"
http://www.eclecticity.com
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