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HTTP's Days Numbered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-number-or-small-number-is-the-question dept.

dlek writes: "ZDNet is running an article in which a Microsoft .Net engineer declares HTTP's days are numbered. (For those of you just tuning in, HTTP is the primary protocol for the world-wide web.) Among the tidbits in this manifesto is the inference that HTTP is problematic primarily because it's asymmetric--it's not peer-to-peer, therefore it's obsolete. Hey everybody, P2P was around long before Napster, and was rejected when client-server architecture was more appropriate!"

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  1. Re:Technological Snake Oil by Ace905 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have to agree with you completely on this. Microsoft's latest announcement is nothing more than lip service to beaten horses.

    If you check their interoperability standards you can see that they blatently admit non-adherence to POSIX compliance in a very anti pro-active server farm way.

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    Ace