Re: [xml-dev] Re: XML As Fall Guy

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 11/25/13 9:09 AM, cbullard@hiwaay.net wrote:
> How many here worked on the project?  So far, only Kurt Cagle.
>
> It's ironic to see a list where the calling card is data design drop
> into the same mode of armchair quarterbacking as the talking heads on CNN.
I'm less concerned about the armchair quarterbacking - which is likely 
endless - and more about the collateral damage from the armchairs.  Or 
the quarterbacking. Hmm... neither of those really work, but maybe you 
know what I mean.

I came into work today to find an "XML in the news" thread on this very 
article, started by folks I didn't expect in a place I wasn't expecting 
it.  Whatever the underlying story, I suspect we'll be dealing with the 
reverberations from this for a while.

> IOW, without the ICDs, RFPs and architectural design documents, or first
> hand experience any analysis is dubious.  On the other hand given the
> preference given in procurements to web-based systems, it will be very
> useful to know technically precisely what went wrong.
Yes, it would be useful. I'm not sure it's possible to know through the 
politics, but yes.

> I am reminded of the launch of Vanguard followed very quickly by the
> successful launch of the Redstone.   I suspect these events have much in
> common culturally and technically, but having not been there, it is a
> surface comparison.
Here's hoping!

Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/