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Everyone knows how to play the Standards Game these days. Few have the tenacity and talent to write good standards and fewer organizations can afford them. If the standard requires a consulting army to implement, things are worse. Standards are supposed to relieve that stress, not make it worse.
If you want an eye opener with regard to the fault tolerance and variation of even the common stacks, turn on your Jscript/Javascript debugger in your web browser and surf your favorite sites and a variety of others. It’s amazing anything on the public web works.
len
Technologies come and go as they always have and we adjust accordingly (agile anyone). Long term strategic initiatives are a massively hard sell these days, and perhaps rightly so. Most Project Managers I know have trouble looking beyond the immediate delivery and the set of problems that it addresses. Most architects are having a tough time getting funding for long term infrastructure spend, and many supposed pundits are already planning their meal tickets on the back of the next hype curve. The rest of us are just getting on with the job.
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