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Recall that at the time Java was set to make Windows irrelevant. Microsoft had a massive success, via XML, in derailing this future. To explain a little, the S
by bboreham 10y ago
Recall that at the time Java was set to make Windows irrelevant. Microsoft had a massive success, via XML, in derailing this future.
To explain a little, the Sun position was "use Java to write everything; then it all talks together nicely". But folks realised they could use XML to tie different pieces together and relegated Java to the server. Yes, there were other other ways to interop, eg CORBA, but they were ugly, expensive and heavyweight.
- insightful 10y agoThis is just not right at all (and one is a document data format, the other an IPC, so the comparison is flawed to begin with), not to mention that you're focusing far too much on the XML aspect which was utterly irrelevant in this case -- MSXMLHTTP actually had nothing to do with XML.