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David Lyon wrote: >Rick, > >On Friday 28 January 2005 06:53 pm, Rick Marshall wrote: > > >>at this stage xml is a core technology - you have no way of knowing how >>much is out there. >> >> > >But this can be guestimated by talking to people and some organisations >have tried to quantify it. > >Anyway, my great dispute isn't how much or little it is being used but >why it isn't being used in absolutely every business in an on-the-wire >manner that extends past the adsl router... > > > >>right now we use xml for message exchange within the organisation (why - >>tools, data independence in face of a changing app, etc etc ) with >>thousands of messages a day moving between machines. >> >> > >But you are advanced Rick... and you have fun with these things >and are a clever C programmer. > >but your view of computer communications is based on messages >and transactions. That's the old school. > >The new xml Grid view is where all the machines are nodes and the >data is spread. The transactions are deep. > >and there's potential for a whole new world of "transaction types" that >have never even been imagined that you can do with a grid typology. > >for example, do a product search for a "audi a4 bumper" but all the >machines/merchants receive the search text. Everybody receives >everything that everybody searches for. > > > i'm starting to see the issue here. the grid is a subset of a much wider messaging environment. if you look at the original ws stuff there's a very big picture out there that encompasses these issues. xml is, at last, the glue that makes it all work. rick <snip /> begin:vcard fn:Rick Marshall n:Marshall;Rick email;internet:rjm@z... tel;cell:+61 411 287 530 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
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