- From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:43:56 -0500
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
> > [me]
> > If you've been following the recent debate about the prospects for
> > extending WSDL (but not standing too close, I hope), you can see that
> > a key issue is how to build on what already exists in getting to a
> > "semantic" web. For some people the slightest departure from the
> > current WSDL path ordained by Microsoft and IBM is suicide (even if we
> > don't know what the path is yet!).
> [Bijan Parsia]
> Who are these people? I mean, where has this been articulated?
I'm alluding to this message from Roger Cutler on Mar 16 --
> I assume it has not escaped your notice that Microsoft is not
> playing in this Semantic Web space at all. What does this mean?
> I'm not really sure, but one thing it means to me is that I think
> you don't have five years to come up with something deployable. I
> know that Microsoft is quite capable of making abrupt U-turns and
> picking up on things in a big way, but I don't think that they are
> very likely to do so unless it's something with quantifiable value
> that can be deployed immediately. Why should you care? Well, I
> suspect that if Microsoft does NOT make such a U-turn that they are
> perfectly capable of putting something into the market within the
> next few years that will seriously blindside the Semantic Web
> efforts.
I don't mean to disparage this point of view at all. Roger's message
makes me want to drop what I'm doing and go take a .NET certification
course! It'll probably position me better for future participation in
SOA development than working on OWL-S. :)
-- Drew
Received on Sunday, 19 March 2006 03:40:51 UTC