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----- Original Message ----- From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@e...> To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@s...>; <xml-dev@x...> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:10 PM Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ????? > > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies. > > Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year. > http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml > You got me there! Ballmer's hype is pretty monumental, paraphrased later in this article as "Ballmer's optimism that XML will flawlessly usher in a new means of doing business." So I can see how a reasonable journalist could feel the need to deflate this particular hype balloon. Thanks for setting me straight ... it's scary to look back on such hype; it reminds me of 1997 or so when Java was hyped as the Windows-killing universal client... and of 1998 when it was considered a failure for not sending Bill G. to the poorhouse. We should probably get ready for a spate of "XML didn't solve the world's problems, so it's dead" articles. Sigh. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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