On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:05:48AM -0500, Tad Murphy wrote:
Any manager, or anyone for that matter, that makes a decision based on the name of a product is a moron.
And the difference between that and reality _is_? :-)
| SOAP would be the only thing to really confuse it with. Haven't heard much | talk about SOAP interacting with XML-RPC in Zope, or how Zope might | implement SOAP later. This confusion should generally help Zope, though, not | hurt it.
And my opinion on SOAP is simply Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel. I read the specs and it looks an awful like XML-RPC or WDDX... not sure why you would want to use it...
Extensive, albeit biased, commentary on this can be found at www.scripting.com. Dave Winer seems a bit too trusting of MS, IMAO. But then, he and I don't get along well anyway. I could show you the kilobytes of cuss-mail... but why bother. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592