• To: "'Fredrik Lindgren'" <fredrik.lindgren@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:19:28 -0600
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <3D04F98C.2040604@c...>

> When you say that "we" don't need them, do you mean that users don't
> need those implementations, or that the major vendors don't need the
> competition from them in the Web service space? If you mean the
latter,
> I can understand the reasoning behind supporting XSD, XPath 2.0, XSLT
> 2.0, and XML Query.
> 
> Are you sure that the distributed application developers really care
> about the vendors and not about the technology that gets delivered?
> Their managers might care more about the vendors, but I doubt that the
> developers do.
> 
> /Fredrik Lindgren

Developers care about the vendor behind the technology they're using.
How much one believes in a particular vendor has a big impact on how one
designs a system. I see it every day.

-aaron

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  • Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
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