Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Peter E.C. Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:17:25 +1300

"Gary" <IDontThink@so.com.so> wrote in message
news:yh9Jb.192239$8y1.622466@attbi_s52...
> "Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
> > The network (as web services) may be 'king' for _some_ uses. For other
> > applications having a large central server, or a cluster of server
> > blades, may be exactly the correct solution.
>
> Yep, I agree. No one single "application stack" will prevail.
>
> To me, one of the most compelling aspects of "Web services" (or
> architecturally, "Service Oriented Architectures") is that it embraces
that
> very position. It couldn't care less about the "application stack" behind
a
> SOAP request (it is, in principle at least, completely agnostic and
> universal).
>

Sadly, my post was completely misunderstood (certainly by Richard) and I
never disputed any of this.

It isn't arguable.

Pete.

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