Re: [ebsoa] Re: [regrep] 20 reasons why web services are like ParisHilton

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> I was playing with the "Paris Hilton" thing :-)

Oh - I knew that. ;)

Joe
 
> Web Services are fine, except for the politics.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> On Mar 26, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> 
>      Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> 
>           I just wish the web services picture was a bit clearer and in focus.
> 
>      Matt,
> 
>      What aspects of the "Web Services picture" might you be referring to?
>      The current and emerging standards/specifications? The overlaps
>      between/within consortiums? Interoperability or lack thereof between
>      various specifications/standards? Interoperability or lack thereof
>      between various Web Services-based application frameworks?
> 
>      The list goes on...
> 
>      Joe
> 
>           I'm sure there is something interesting to see there, its just too > dark and out of focus.
> 
>           :-)
> 
>           On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:16 PM, David RR Webber wrote:
> 
>           Joe,
> 
>           The most irreverent answer!
> 
>           #20 - everyone is talking about web services
>           #19 - there are more people thinking about web services than doing them
>           #18 - web service articles are everywhere in magazines - but noone is
>           quite certain about the accuracy of the details in them
>           #17 - proven benefits of web services are hard to show but if people see
>           you doing web services they will try and mingle in with your group
>           #16 - everyones trying to figure out how they can cash-in on web services
>           #15 - web services sound and look young, tight and amazing in the glossy
>           magazines
>           #14 - web services can change their look rapidly and without warning
>           #13 - everyone has their own ideas about how they'd like to do web services
>           #12 - its hard to describe to your neighbours what you are doing with web
>           services
>           #11 - people who are not really doing web services will say they are anyway
>           #10 - a lot of rich people and PR machines are behind web services
>           #9 - web services looks like its just life on a beach but in reality its
>           much more
>           confusing and complex than that
>           #8 - the long term consequences of doing web services could result in some
>           unforeseen side effects from things that might be revelled later that
>           took
>           place earlier that you did not know about
>           #7 - getting a legal agreement before doing web services is really tough,
>           most people are doing it anyway while they have the chance and
>           hoping it will all be alright later
>           #6 - web services are all over the internet and in junk mail
>           #5 - web services are young, make a lot of noise, and some of the things
>           they do are crude and shocking
>           #4 - doing things with web services probably means alot of late nights
>           and having to fix up messy loose ends before someone notices
>           #3 - there is no standard way of doing web services but people will take
>           anything that web services are doing and then sell them for as much
>           as they can get
>           #2 - web services are trying to become things that they are not, but would
>           like to be somehow
>           #1 - web services can do absolutely anything you want them to do - and in
>           ways you never even thought possible.
> 
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