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Avantage compétitif ou centre de coûts?

I’ve heard a consistent message – the internet’s growing at an incredible rate – and for many of our customers, the network has become core to how they engage their markets and create competitive advantage. Those are our key customers, those that see network computing as a vital element of their strategy, those pushing the limits of scale and load, and those that see IT innovation as anything but a cost center.

Jonathan Schwartz sun’s CEO

WS-machiavellian ?

I remember talking with Andrew Layman, one of the SOAP architects at Microsoft. He let slip that it was actually a Microsoft objective to make the standard sufficiently complex that only the tools would read and write this stuff, and not humans. So that was a strategy tax that was imposed by the big companies on some of this technology, where they made it more complicated than it needed to be so they could sell tools.

Tim O’Reilly (source: WS-* vs. the REST )