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...from the current InfoWorld rag, CTO Survival column:
"Software is an opinion about how a business should run. It's expressed
in code rather than English, but it's an opinion nonetheless. So when you
buy software from multiple vendors [or have different teams develop
applications independently as is so common in large organizations] you're
buying differing opinions. Interfaces are where they clash. To state the
obvious: technology can't resolve a difference of opinions". - Bob Lewis
He was talking about Web Services not being the magic bullet for all EAI
ills...which most battle-scarred IT veterans already know. It would apply
equally to many XML technologies.
I thought it a nice way to sum up the plumbing versus semantics discussions
that have been raging on this list.
Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com
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