Hi Didier,
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:50:01PM -0400, Didier PH Martin wrote:
> a) Amounts of available money to experiment. Just remember how much money
> has been invested in the web.
The Web exhibited its infamous growth curve long before any money was
behind it.
http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/net/web-growth-summary.html
> Sorry to kill illusions with a such utilitarian approach.
Nice try, but no cigar. 8-)
There's simple, though non-obvious reasons why the common use of SOAP
will never see this type of growth. Primarily, it's because the a
priori contract that is present between a SOAP sender and a SOAP
receiver is insufficient to generate any network effects. HTTP provides
a much richer contract. And for that matter, so does FTP, SMTP, and
every other application protocol in existence.
MB
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