begin Thursday 22 January 2004 12:36, Carsten Kuckuk quote:
For a manager / financial person you can try this one: Encoding an SPF
query (and the reply) in XML actually turns it into an asynchronous
remote procedure call (RPC). An open standard for this kind of thing
is XML-RPC. XML-RPC only allows synchronous calls, so it was extended
into SOAP which also allows asynchronous calls and all kinds of
underlying transport protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.) Once you use an
XML payload for a UDP packet, the argument can be made that this is
equivalent to doing SOAP over UDP. Soon after XML-RPC came out, and
work was started on SOAP, Microsoft hired a lot of the key players in
that field, like Don Box, etc. So it's safe to say that Microsoft owns
a lot of patents related to area where XML, RPC, asynchronous calls,
and load balancing intersect. If SPF-XML becomes the standard,
Microsoft (or somebody else from the Web Services Scene) might one day
pull out one of their patents and sue everybody who's using it.
Very nice argument...but what if, as many readers here suspect, this
"unnamed important mystery stakeholder" actually _is_ Microsoft ;-) ?
Alain
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