<span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Everyone knows how to play the Standards
Game these days.  Few have the tenacity and talent to write good standards
and fewer organizations can afford them.  If the standard requires a consulting
army to implement, things are worse.  Standards are supposed to relieve
that stress, not make it worse.

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<span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you want an eye opener with regard to
the fault tolerance and variation of even the common stacks, turn on your Jscript/Javascript
debugger in your web browser and surf your favorite sites and a variety of
others.  It’s amazing anything on the public web works.

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From: Fraser Goffin
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<span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Technologies come and go as they always have and we adjust
accordingly (agile anyone). Long term strategic initiatives are a massively
hard sell these days, and perhaps rightly so. Most Project Managers I know have
trouble looking beyond the immediate delivery and the set of problems that it
addresses. Most architects are having a tough time getting funding for long
term infrastructure spend, and many supposed pundits are already planning their
meal tickets on the back of the next hype curve. The rest of us are just
getting on with the job.