John Magee is vice president of Oracle9i at Oracle. John has over 14 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and has held positions in product development, product management, and product marketing. In his current role, he manages technical product marketing for Oracle's application server and development tools products, and is responsible for evangelizing Oracle technology initiatives around J2EE, XML, and Web services.
A few years ago at an early XML conference, an attendee made the point that
XML was such a useful technology for data portability that it would
eventually become ubiquitous - part of every tool, server, and application.
He went on to predict that XML would become so commonplace that the idea of
attending an XML conference would eventually seem silly. "In a few years, a
conference on XML will seem as ridiculous as a conference on ASCII would
today," he quipped.
He was on the right track, but by focusing on XML only as a way to move data
between proprietary applications even this bullish prognosticator was quite
likely understating XML's long-term potential to improve the capabilities of
information systems.
XML has been a smashing success. It's widely used in publishing as a
lightweight alternative to SGML for separating form and content. It plays a
key role in mes... (more)
John Magee is vice president of Oracle9i at Oracle. John has over 14 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and has held positions in product development, product management, and product marketing. In his current role, he manages technical product marketing for Oracle's application server and development tools products, and is responsible for evangelizing Oracle technology initiatives around J2EE, XML, and Web services.
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