• To: "Betty Harvey" <harvey@e...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:17:19 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)

> deeper into the problem.  One quote I thought could correlate directly
> with what we are seeing with XML specifications and technologies:
> 
>    'But companies don't always need what they get. "They overbuy
>    and get more features, more functions than they need," says
>    analyst David Smith of Gartner'
> 
> History keeps repeating itself!

On the other hand, the availability of tools and products for XML has
lagged pretty badly, making it hard for the progress-minded CEO to find
things to spend money on.  The complication in the specs only makes it
more difficult for vendors to produce products that people can overbuy.
:-)

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