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New Tech companies built out the infrastructure . . .
. . . but once it's built, you need a lot fewer tech companies. That's what's happened. Everyone already has all the computers they need, has purchased the software, has network connections. Now it's just maintenance and expansion.

This is simple evolution of a new market, very predictable. What people didn't know was just when it would end, and many were in denial that it would end.

The next big tech boom will come when something new comes up that everyone needs. Of course it will turn into a bust too.
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New Re: No doubt in my mind what the next wave is ...


It is based on XML where XML becomes the middleware for passing data objects between compatible and incompatible technologies & platforms and where specific sets of XML Schemas are adopted as standards within various industries & by industry groups and where web services proliferate to process XML based messages in SOAP format.

- Web Services based on UDDI, SOAP & WSDL will start the ball rolling
- Companies like IBM Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Software AG, SilversStream etc: etc: (ad nauseum) will provide XML based messaging and Web Services tools
- ebXML will be the big brother & become the Enetrprise Web Services framework

This will be just another revolution but will be pretty much what Gates described at Fusion World conf (I know he is a plagiarist & opportunist in making the remarks he did - but he is still 100% spot on)

The base technologies are with us already - most major software vendors have either already added Web Services support (the UDDI based variety) to their products & XML is far more entrenched than most people might realise.

I see late 2001 thru to 2005 as being the Web Services ERA, before some part of our industry dreams up the next wave to get us all on a roll.

Cheers

Doug Marker

New XML is the next big wave
HTML was for presentations and display, XML is for content and data. XML will become the medium that data will get passed around in. Sort of like when Databases used to pass data in DBase and CSV text files because any Database could read them and import the data. That, to me, is sort of what XML is like. A standard that can be used to pass data between different programs.
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New Re: XML is the next big wave
"A standard that can be used to pass
data between different programs."

Yup but that is only a small part of the impact that XML is having.

XML is a standard and in technological terms it is not perfect, but, it is what this standard
allows and is achieving that make it one of the biggest impacts to hit IT in its history.

Firstly - the world has gone OOT for application development - objects & message passing
between them - XML allows data objects to be deserialized (flattened out) and passed
between otherwise incompatible objects, languages and technologies, historically this
allows us to move on from passing data between incompatible systems & software by
way of data manipulation middleware be it from back in the days of modularized &
structured programs thru to todays OOT languages and OSes & application products.
In OOT we had the usual hostile camps creating incompatible means of communicating
between objects - COM+, CORBA, RMI etc: and then there was the burgeoning middleware
mess that attempted to glue these incompatible object technologies together with messy
things like IDL and Object Request Brokers - plus the messages passed were usually in
binary & meaningless to humans wanting to observe the data flow.

XML is a meta-language - i.e. it can be redefined for as many different uses as users want
- the DTD or Schema defines a particular data format and these schemas are devised in a
way that allows them to be accessible universally so that any party who wants to work with
a particular data definition can do so.

But one of the greatest things of all about XML is that almost everybody from IT competitors
thru to industry groups and standards bodies, are endorsing XML and XML sub-languages.
The concept is so simple but so amazingly powerful that it can be said that XML paved the way
forward for the whole IT industry and the world of electronic business where passing messages
(data) is what drives business.

Web Services is one concept that can be built on XML - in a sense it can be called
an XML based technology.

Also unlike previous IT advances, XML does not require businesses to throw out their existing
systems or investments - XML will allow add-on wrappering of existing data such that current
investments are protected.

XML is the basis for the 'new wave' of middleware and it is compatible no matter
what language or OS or server or application. Providing the schema is common
each system should be able to recognise the message - and humans can read the data in a
more meaningful way than was possible with COM+, Corba/IIOP & RMI messages.

The impact on IT is somewhat equivalent to when world trade changed for ever once
everyone adopted Container standards for shipping goods.

It changed the designs of Aircraft, trains trucks roads ports etc: etc: etc: & world trade
boomed.

Cheers

Doug
New Re: No doubt in my mind what the next wave is ...
From programmer/network engineer point of view, XML may be a revolution. But it's not the kind of revolution that drives economy. From a more general point of view, XML fits into maintenance/improvement cathegory. Nothing comparable to advent of PC or WWW.
     Key technology points of Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony - (brettj) - (7)
         No surprise - (bepatient) - (6)
             Thanks, that helps explain a few things. - (brettj) - (5)
                 Tech companies built out the infrastructure . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (4)
                     Re: No doubt in my mind what the next wave is ... - (dmarker2) - (3)
                         XML is the next big wave - (orion) - (1)
                             Re: XML is the next big wave - (dmarker2)
                         Re: No doubt in my mind what the next wave is ... - (Arkadiy)

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