• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:48:22 -0500

Sorry, I don't buy it -- I was looking for something more rigorous.

A large financial services firm in the Boston area converted from a 
variety of data silo's to an all-XML storage and data-interchange 
infrastructure and was able to decommission a significant number of 
servers.

Is that evidence or anecdote?  How can you tell?  Suppose I removed all 
the vagueness and replaced it with concrete numbers?

"I know it when I see it" is not an answer.

        /r$

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