Apps Messaging - Semantics of a Message

[John Taylor]

On 17 Apr 2007, at 04:55, Doug Tody wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, John Taylor wrote:
>
>> On 16 Apr 2007, at 16:31, Rob Seaman wrote:
>>
>>> I'd also argue that the astronomical software community itself
>>> contains many of the "better qualified people".  We're a small, but
>>> feisty, group that attracts interest from many larger players due
>>> not only to the niftiness of the science of astronomy, but also to
>>> the interesting bit of computing phase space that astronomical use
>>> cases transect.
>>
>> I guess the proof will come when we see companies dropping their SOAP
>> APIs in favour of VOOOM.
>
> I realize this is probably a joke, but no one here is trying to  
> produce
> the ultimate messaging system for use outside astronomy (although I  
> notice
> PLASTIC was done on Sourceforge :-).

Purely because it was neutral territory!