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... It's very challenging to think > globally when a billion-dollar opportunity may be slipping through > your fingers, while pointy-headed people dither contentiously about > technical details that have no great relevance to that billion-dollar > opportunity. Even if civilization as a whole could save trillions of > dollars in lost productivity by getting those details right in the > first place. I'm sorry ... exactly which billion dollar opportunity is slipping through whose fingers :-) This is true, take for example healthcare (which IMHO is the killer XML app). The U.S. spends in aggregate $ 1.5 or so Trillion/year. Estimates are that 20-40% is due to overhead, inefficiency, waste etc. (i.e. *not* being spent on actual health care). The problem is that its no one individual, or organization's problem. Its always someone elses problem. Unless there is a very specific benefit to improving efficiency there's no incentive to do the hard work to make it happen. So... each and every one on this list has to take a stand and refuse medical care from any organization which doesn;t maintain and transmit its records in XML ... Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net > > -Steve > > -- > Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc. > srn@t... http://www.techno.com ftp.techno.com > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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