RE: [xml-dev] Why XML for Messaging?

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>]

That's news to me.  Details?  Do you mean 
Balmer and Schwartz making nice?

Last I saw, the W3C is demanding more numbers 
and the big vendors save Sun are fighting it 
publically.  The W3DC embraced it because Sun 
stepped up to do the right thing technically 
and financially (a binary is a must have in 
graphics). 

len

From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]

> Because Sun goes to the trouble of getting an international 
> standard for it.  Microsoft is fighting that idea.

I thought there was a deal in April 2004.

Joe