On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:19, Dan Shafer wrote:
From which experience i conclude:
(a) AJAX and RIAs are not a panacea
(b) $2 billion acconting firms IT shops probably don't embrace new
technologies in the first place (having seen *that* up close and
personal)
(c) Moving information from one Web service to another is often
difficult because of all the impenetrable crap put in the way for
"security" in the first place
(d) This technology has a ways to go.
I suspect the CIO was talking about "web services" in the narrow
sense of something like SOAP (no longer word of the month). And if
that's the case, I can understand his comments. I remember struggling
to make the SOAP toolkit that was once distributed with Rev, and at
the time thinking "what's the point?". The aim was basically to get a
piece of dynamically generated xml from one computer to another - not
very different from a web form and a cgi script. In this case, I
think it's not the technology that has a way to go, but the
definition of a clear purpose, without which committees will
generate more committees until the camel is built.
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
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.
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