> SOAP had serious technical shortcomings, but, as a market strategy, it was a masterstroke.
Wrong. SOAP descended quickly into the "whatever happened to" category. Like CORBA. I'm happy to say I threw out SOAP and used REST instead at Google, in practically my first act there:
Why are you taking the sentence out of context to change its meaning? TFA says it was a good business move by Microsoft for Microsoft because it fragmented the competition which had been consolidating around CORBA. What happened to it afterwards is irrelevant.
Wrong. SOAP descended quickly into the "whatever happened to" category. Like CORBA. I'm happy to say I threw out SOAP and used REST instead at Google, in practically my first act there:
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-enterp...
The Internet had no time for multi-company, political garbage like SOAP and CORBA.