Re: [xml-dev] Adam Bosworth's XML 2003 Address - Reaction

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Re: [xml-dev] Adam Bosworth's XML 2003 Address - Reaction
 (Chiusano Joseph) writes:
>I must admit that I was curiously puzzled by Adam Bosworth's XML 2003
>address in which he emphasized the need for us to return to simplicity
>regarding the current wave of existing/emerging Web Services standards.
>Was anyone else? Given that BEA is an author/co-author of many of these
>emerging specs [1] (WS-Coordination/Transaction, WS-Acknowledgement,
>etc.), there appears to be a dichotomy here. Or is there?
>
>Was Adam Bosworth *really* saying what he was saying? Or was there
>another message behind the scenes?

I wasn't sure if he was enjoying the irony, or just presenting yet
another marketing pitch.  

BEA's history did make it really hard to take the speech seriously,
though.

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