Does XForms Technology Have Momentum?
October 19, 2007
I have a few Google news and blog alerts that help me keep track of some technologies of interest. One is for XForms, which I receive as a daily digest, and I always get something every day, usually four or five items, almost all from blogs. Almost every item is technical and fairly in-depth, usually about something the blogger is prototyping or developing. I compare this to my alert for InfoPath, which doesn’t come every day, and the items that do trickle in are rarely technical. Usually they are PR about a product, where InfoPath is mentioned in a list of technologies that the product works with. In fairness to Microsoft, I just played with a search for “forms services” in blogs, and got more hits from that, so I will set up an alert. Interestingly though, in Google blog search, I get a total of 2,016 hits for “forms services” and 35,585 for XForms.
In today’s XForms alert, John Boyer of IBM offers some ideas for talking to C-Level types about XForms. For John, the business value of XForms comes down to this:
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Bill Trippe at October 19, 2007 9:28 AM
