Re: [emergency] FW: [legalxml-intjustice] GJXDM subset schema example and documen tation

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

To be honest, I doubt we could settle this notion of adoption uptake 
in RFPs here.

However it is interesting to note that one small part of Allen's 
experience and and opinion (which is also pretty much conventional 
wisdom) which is that the public sector is more resistant to change 
than the private sector has recently been turned on its head somewhat 
by the rather quick adoption of XML and the acceptance of open public 
standards as opposed to proprietary solutions though not depending on 
open standards as a matter of course either.

This doesn't mean that the conventional wisdom that public sector is 
slower to adopt innovations is no longer valid, just that this one 
particular aspect has happened more quickly than one might have 
expected. However, that is also largely due to the OMB's requirement 
of agencies to cite what each is doing to come into compliance with 
the rubric of the Government Performance Results Act of 1993 and 
saying that one is adopting a now-accepted migration path for IT is 
easy especially in the context of the " Federal Enterprise 
Architecture" and/or its concommitant "Service-Oriented Architecture" 
as the framework for upgrading governmental IT. Actually 
understanding what this means and then actually implementing a 
program is whole 'nother story.

Ciao,
Rex

At 12:56 PM -0500 3/23/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote:
>On Mar 23, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Art Botterell wrote:
>
>>One might speculate that one reason Global Justice is getting into 
>>the RFPs... aside from its sheer scope... is because they hastened 
>>to get something out to market early and then enhanced it in 
>>parallel with the RFP development process.  I'm sure GJXDD has 
>>improved in many, many ways from their 1.0.
>
>I would find it very hard to believe, especially in the public 
>sector, which is comparatively resistant to change vs. private 
>sector, that GJXDD started making it into RFPs because it was 
>day-and-date with any RFP development process. When you couple it 
>with the fact that we are talking 3.0 here - not 1.0 - it is most 
>likely because it has been around a while and that it is finally 
>starting to be half baked from a "concept-into-reality" standpoint. 
>IMHO, it took longer than it should to make it into RFPs, which is 
>more of a reflection of hastening rather than doing it right the 
>first time.
>
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