Putting people first for a change
AS WITH EARLIER MICROSOFT mantras (ActiveX, Windows DNA),
.Net means almost everything and therefore nothing in particular.
The Redmond priesthood incants XML with the same mystical
vagueness. No resounding amen has yet been heard from the hundreds
of millions of souls who use Windows and Office, who were recently
demoted from "knowledge workers" to "information workers" and then
reclassified as "first-class data objects." Instead they ask,
"What's in it for me?" [Full story at
InfoWorld.com.]
Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2002/10/07.html#a436