(2002-03-04) b

An old Dave Net on BootStrapping makes an interesting business-case for XML and Web Services: company mergers. Let's find a way to start lots of standalone companies, fund lots of independent-thinking developers with a twinkle in the eye, it's so cheap, but let's give them standards to work with. Let's make it so that when the companies merge, the services plug together, and work. Based on many years in this industry, I think this feature would please the VC mind. The mergers they conceive would be implementable, they'd work.