• From: Dave Winer <dave@u...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:35:56 -0700

 >>Like it or not it seems this is something anyone working in e-commerce 
is going to have to take seriously given it has the support of Microsoft, 
SAP, Baan and Peoplesoft.

Famous last words! That's exactly the kind of stuff people said about 
various mail APIs that were floating around just around the time that the 
Internet rewrote all the rules in the software business. No, the size of 
the company doesn't determine the viability of the ideas, not even in the 
corporate world. Gotta learn this one over and over and over and over.

Dave

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