Gervas Douglas wrote:
> I don't think it is fair just to blame Microsoft (although a couple of
> years ago one of my techy friends remarked that MS pushed WS as a
> means of selling .NET). IBM, BEA et al. were not slow to climb on the
> WS bandwagon.
But IBM was, and still is to some degree, scrambling to find something to sell.
MQ has been popular, and anything that would allow MQ to be sold in more
places probably looked good. BEA is just BEA. They've been in the APP server
business for some time, and anything that other APP servers do, they feel
compelled to do so that there is less differentiation. That's one of the
lemmings scenarios that is most obvious. Copy your competitor to reduce
differentiation instead of innovate to differentiate your product.
> As for someone remarking on the ubiquity of HTTP as a protocol,
> perhaps this had something to do with its pre-application use ubiquity.
Perhaps. HTTP is everywhere. That's sort of like saying outlook express is
used
everywhere, let's standardize on it. There are some good things about OE.
However it also has flaws that make it undesireable for many types of
applications (such as reading publically transmitted email :-) So, we have to
understand the limits and capabilities of technologies. Somethings we learn by
observation before application. Somethings we learn from mistakes. Other
things we learn from catastrophes. The momentum of software markets is
growing,
and more and more vertial markets are being tackled by less and less
experienced
software developers. Giving them the wrong tools with less experience in tool
selection is not going to improve their chance of success.
The inverted market place is providing a key force in allowing anything goes
product development.
Gregg Wonderly
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