I thought you all
would be interested in part of an email letter about XML from Steve Ballmer
of Microsoft.
"... Today
we recognize that our decisions have an impact on many other technology
companies. We have an important leadership role to play in our industry, and we
must play by new rules - both legally and as determined by industry trends. (new
paragraph) For example, we recognize that we need to support industry
cooperation in new and creative ways, as we're doing in the development of
standards based on eXtensible Markup Language, or XML. The entire industry has
embraced XML as the universal way for computers to talk to each other in a much
richer way across the World Wide Web. Today companies like Microsoft and IBM
collaborate on enhancing XML-based standards while at the same time competing to
make innovative, easy-to-use software that helps customers take advantage of the
power of XML. ..."
I signed up for
the "occasional emails from me [Steve Ballmer], Bill Gates and other Microsoft
executives on important technology and public-policy topics". (No I don't know
where to go to sign up for the e-mails.) Posting this snippit was for
informational purposes ABOUT XML only. I do NOT intend to start a huge
dialog about Microsoft, their marketing, and whether they are telling the
truth or not. If you want to see the whole letter then email me
off-list in the next day and I'll forward a copy to you. The part
I copied is the only part dealing with
XML.
Pam Ammond
