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First off, their technology is neither cool nor unique. SOAP is nice enough, but it's pretty weak. All this shit about "once everyone uses X, everything will work together" is like saying believing that once everyone adopted TCP/IP, everything would work together.

Well, unlike this crap that's coming out now, everything does use TCP/IP, and you know what, I still can't go to www.tvguide.com and click on my favorite shows and have my TIVO record them for me any more than I can quickly and easily send hate mail to all these morons writing about how shit is going to "revolutionize everything."

Not that some of this stuff won't be used, and things won't get better, but it took, what, 15, 20 years? for TCP/IP to make it so I can ping your computer, I highly doubt that SOAP is going to mean my toaster will email me when my toast is ready by next June.

Which is to say, it's a well done protocol for interop between systems, but a protocol alone isn't going to do much for you.