RE: [saml-dev] SAML Usage Statistics?

["Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>]

> > The only 
> > benefit comes from the ease of possible future interoperability.
> 
> Don't sell that benefit short. In some environments, the 
> barrier between
> collaborating and not collaborating in some fashion is 
> entirely based on the
> marginal cost. If the marginal cost approaches zero or some low number
> because your "proprietary" internal system is already based 
> on a standard,
> you may be able to build the case for something else much 
> more readily.

Yes, but my point is that this will not give you "hard numbers" to demonstrate ROI to a skeptical executive or bean counter.

Hal