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Mike Champion <mc@x...> writes: > 4/22/2002 7:59:13 PM, <jwrobie@m...> wrote: > > >I do think that the W3C has had some pretty big > >successes, including HTML and XML. > > Hmm, the last of these was more than four years ago. And both of > them resulted from the W3C's "old" role as a place where vendors can > come together to define interoperability profiles of reasonably > well-understood technologies. As for the first point, I think you really need a few years to see how successful a technology will be in the marketplace, and what problems it causes in practice. That's why I chose technologies I consider very well established. One of the ramifications of new technologies is you simply don't know right away how successful they will be. Personally, I think that XQuery and Web Services will also turn out to be real successes, but we shouldn't proclaim that until after the marketplace has adopted them. Jonathan
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