Sounds like a radical statement, but let me clarify:
The dot com world has been gutted. Dot coms are dying left and right. Much of the investment money driving XML initiatives was living on the B2B hype which was younger brother to the B2C. Now B2C is dying and it would seem that B2B is going along with it.
You also see XML initiatives failing, like that Dell hub that shut down the other day.
None of our trading partners are interested in touching XML for another 2 to 3 years until the standards settle. Noone wants to invest in an XML product, because it may be useless next year.
Is the truth finally being shaken out - That XML is not a "Magic Problem Solver" and that the real issue is and always was the differing capabilities of different backend systems?
Anthony Beecher
Manager of Vendor Systems
buy.com
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