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coolNow Playing: 'When the hold reaches up and grabs you.' Theatrical makeup can do just so much and then you ride the light.
Topic: SaaS
I must be watching too much Oprah. I don't even know who the artist is and I find myself empathizing.
I was going through all my old XML and miscellaneous programming books and I came across this discussion on web services. It's taken Microsoft four years to come to the point where they have finally broken down and said web services. Case in point is the ballsa wood Microsoft put out for market speak about web services recently (see Here and scroll down to circa April 18 7:30 PM EDT) and THEN (see Here and scroll down to circa April 17 2:00 PM EDT) and see if you would ride in an airplane made out of ballsa wood.
This is from The XML Handbook by Charles Goldfarb, the Father of XML. I copied it from my own copy so I think that's legal and all, ain't it? Not autographed but maybe one day. I will give Charles my autograph if he wants.
© 2002 by Charles F. Goldfarb / Paul Prescod
Web Services (p. 669)
The hype about Web Services has been voluminous and relentless.
One reader of this book even asked whether we would be changing the focus from XML to Web Services. Our reply was that you wouldn't notice the difference! And that's regardless of what you think Web services is. (Besides thinking that it's ungrammatical!)
Some think it is business integration on steroids: companies finding one another automatically and purchasing services without human intervention.
Some think it is universal content processing; user access to any data from any computing device at any location.
And programmers, who have to do the work, Think about the reality; some improved technologies for distributed computing.
But all of these thoughts involve XML. Web services is XML Web services, the culmination of everything you've been reading. In this part we'll look at both the vision and the reality.
Get it? It was that way back in 2002. Where the heck has Microsoft been since then. Forget Microsoft, where have all the big XML houses that were supposed to crowd the land by now. They're all just now finding out about this stuff? Not VCSY at least. Boy am I lucky.
