<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Honest reply when I asked why people constantly try to er-invent the XML/JSON wheel, when it is not fun at all<div class="">to do so….(plus extremely error prone..:-)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=======================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">Dana, </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">I suppose you've answered your own question, it's not about the science or technology these days, IT'S BUSINESS. As soon as companies are seeded by investors it becomes about $$ and nothing else. </span></div><div class=""><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">They have to cash out, so of course they're going to come up with their own proprietary query language---it's just another bullet point on the data sheet used to pitch companies into switching over to an enterprise license. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">======</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">And no, this one is not </span><span style="line-height: 18px;" class="">about Mulesoft. It’s Yet-Another-One :-)</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class="">Have a great weekend everybody,</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class="">Dana</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></body></html>