On 11/27/06, Stefan Tilkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > > > So if I may extrapolate a bit .. are you seriously saying that the Web > > as it existed in 1996 (HTTP, URIs, XML, REST) is *all* that is > > needed to > > replace EDI, MQ and all the bazillion integration technologies and the > > only reason it hasn't been used for that for the last 10 years is > > simply > > lack of understanding? Do you seriously mean to say that we've had the > > silver bullet in our hands all these years and simply didn't know it?? > > Well ... except that I don't claim it's a silver bullet - yes :-)
+1. And that's not to say that new technologies can't be used, but only that the successful ones will be designed to work *with* the Web (as additional architectural constraints), not against it as "Web services" do. http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2005/12/03/the-end-of-the-plumbing-wars/ Mark.
