2/26/2002 12:49:57 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@[...].com>  wrote:

> That's a bit fast on the draw, Leigh.  Perhaps some review of 
> that Herzog thesis is in order.  
> 
> http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/herzog/thesis
> 
> Are you sure REST doesn't fall apart in other models of hypermedia frameworks, 
> or sure we need those frameworks? 

Thanks for that link, it's definitely interesting.  I'd guess from reading the
about the Dexter framework that HTTP/REST  was a classic "disruptive 
innovation".  A recent discussion is at http://www.inc.com/search/23854-
print.html:
"A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of 
a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market 
that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. Very often this 
occurs at the low end of a market -- that is how Toyota attacked General 
Motors, for example. Or it takes root by providing a simple and inexpensive 
product that enables a new population of customers to begin participating in a 
new application in the market -- as was the case with personal computers"


 




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