Dontin,
>any open client should be able to
>talk to any open server, and vice-versa).
>I posit that there really is
>NO such thing as an "open standard",
>just marketing hype about open standards
>(mostly NSCP marketing hype, IMO).
You're funny.
It's all relative.
To paraphrase an old Yankee,
it aint open till it's open.
Web browser/server pairs represent a rapidly evolving, highly competitive, white hot example of C/S technology. NSCP has assumed the role as the leader of that evolution, and has lead the development with an open-orientation (as opposed to the closed-orientation style that other software companies might have taken).
Open standards do indeed exist. (TCP, IP, UDP, TELNET, FTP, SMTP, MIME, X.400, X.25 to mention a few.)
How can you *posit* that there is no such thing as an open standard?
I'm developing telecomm software, and we use unix oriented development environments and X-terminals. There are many open standards in telecomm, but the money is always on the leading edge where things are just opening up. :)
As for hype, who's zooming who? |
