- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:54:20 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Anne Thomas Manes" <anne@manes.net>
- Cc: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> of computers. Businesses would have to be collectively insane to place > that architecture at risk just because a group of software marketing > giants claims that it is the next big wave. They want people who are > experts on the Web architecture to stand up and defend it when needed. With all due respect, businesses just want people to understand their business problems and help them build solutions to those business problems. They aren't looking for software vendors to tell them what to do, they are looking for software vendors who listen and respond. I agree with you that most businesspeople would be concerned if they thought the Internet was going to topple and make it impossible for their grandmothers to download recipes. But I haven't heard any businesspeople who perceive such a risk or begging for a demagogue to "defend the Internet". Or is this a situation of "they want it, but they just don't know yet"?
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