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- From: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>
- To: <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:01:43 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "KenNorth" <KenNorth@email.msn.com>
To: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>; <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: PC Week on "Why XML is Failing" ?????
> > I don't thing ANYONE hyped XML to the point that the article implies.
>
> Listen to (or read) Steve Ballmer's remarks over the past year.
> http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_news/ceo-xml.shtml
>
You got me there! Ballmer's hype is pretty monumental, paraphrased later in
this article as "Ballmer's optimism that XML will flawlessly usher in a new
means of doing business." So I can see how a reasonable journalist could
feel the need to deflate this particular hype balloon.
Thanks for setting me straight ... it's scary to look back on such hype; it
reminds me of 1997 or so when Java was hyped as the Windows-killing
universal client... and of 1998 when it was considered a failure for not
sending Bill G. to the poorhouse. We should probably get ready for a spate
of "XML didn't solve the world's problems, so it's dead" articles. Sigh.
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