> And while the criticisms in the article about the standards process > are valid in general, and no doubt contributed to some of the > technical shortcomings in CORBA, standards are not as much about > technology as they are about agreement and adoption.
The comment about people setting standards they don't know how to implement seems relevant. Moreover many standards appear to be set without having been completely implemented by anyone. That seems antithetical to the term "standard" and aimed more at markitecture than solving real problems. > At the end of the day these "my technology is better than your > technology" arguments often fail to address a key point, which is > how standards gain adoption. How standards gain adoption in the IT industry does not appear to be a process worth being proud of. Sausage making can seem more palatable. > Well, CORBA did not fail. In fact CORBA is more widely deployed in > high performance distributed applications than any other > standards-based technology on the market. Do those high-performance scenarios tend to use the same vendor at all-or-most of the end points, ORBs, etc. Or are there actually a good number of high-performance scenarios using several vendors significantly in the critical aspects? > Also whatever criticisms one might have about the Web services > standardization process, it is a mistake to say that it has an OMG > behind it. Web services standards are not led by a single > organization, which is actually a big part of the problem. We have > OASIS, W3C, WS-I, JCP, and Microsoft/IBM all working on various > aspects of Web services, also SCA now in fact... This is a very > different situation than CORBA and the OMG. No comment needed. I think most of us can reflect proportional confusion as to the result and future directions. -Patrick ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
