John Spiers

Every technology we accept as standard and ubiquitous - from PCs to the World Wide Web - has achieved that level of overwhelming acceptance because of a "killer app" or other enabling technologies. For PCs it was spreadsheets. For servers it was the relational database. The Internet might have remained a collection of academic bulletin boards if it hadn't been for its two killer apps: e-mail and the World Wide Web. In each of these cases an application emerged that exploited the potential of the new technology to fulfill an unmet need, powerfully and easily. For XML, e-commerce is proving to be the killer application. Enterprise Business Integration and the Emergence of XML A fast-emerging driver for XML adoption has been Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) or, more accurately, Enterprise Business Integration (EBI) - the integration of data, applications and proc... (more)