> When you say that "we" don't need them, do you mean that users don't
> need those implementations, or that the major vendors don't need the
> competition from them in the Web service space? If you mean the
latter,
> I can understand the reasoning behind supporting XSD, XPath 2.0, XSLT
> 2.0, and XML Query.
>
> Are you sure that the distributed application developers really care
> about the vendors and not about the technology that gets delivered?
> Their managers might care more about the vendors, but I doubt that the
> developers do.
>
> /Fredrik Lindgren
Developers care about the vendor behind the technology they're using.
How much one believes in a particular vendor has a big impact on how one
designs a system. I see it every day.
-aaron
