I'm not sticking up for him, but...
being subservient to big blue, you'd think that you'd be interested in
how companies build Net applications. You forget, there's a lot of work
that had gone on behind the scenes at Netscape coming up with a standardized
Net application architecture. Standardization using Javascript, LiveConnect,
Internet Foundation Classes (IFC), Netscapes stanardized Plug-in interfaces,
integration with IIOP, integration with LDAP, integration with SMTP,
integration with calendaring and scheduling, integration with security
media types and protocols. A majority of businesses would argue that
standardizing on one set across a whole slew of protocols has made their
collective lives easier. So, maybe they are using a different definition
of 'standard' that what it typically means in the Internet/Web world. That
doesn't mean it didn't have a huge effect in how companies went about
using Web technologies. The collective assembling of a wide diversity of
protocol standards has had more business effects than any single one, plus
it's much easier to tout an already touted posterboy.
Greg