Tom,

*chuckle*

Exactly... <g>


>Doug;
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>This is cleaned up a bit:
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>Two bulls are walking along the rolling hills of a vast dairy ranch. One of the bulls is young and the other bull is old. As the young bull reaches the top of a hill and begins to walk down the other side he sees a group of cows and exclaims, “Let’s run down the hill and seduce a cow”! The old bull says, “No wait! Let’s walk down the hill and seduce them all”!
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>I realize this does not fit the “First to Market” concept, which many believe, makes your product the winner. Only time will tell and all that!
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>Tom
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>>Mike,
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>>>>It's a different story if we build the app IMO though. We're building the back end and the various front ends and the connector(s).
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>>>Right, so we're basically discussing two differnt things here. But we just disagree in the third party WS model (you said "never ever", so the odds are in my favor *g*).
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>>*chuckle*
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>>Except that I give myself the edge I'd think. Whilst you are scrambling to find a new web service (in our imaginary scenario) for your clients and dealing with them yelling at you for the sudden lack of a vital part of their business that now no longer exists I will be merrily trudging along... <g>
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>>Sometimes the turtle really does win. <g>
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>>Time will tell but I think that we are experiencing the validity of the old adage. "Age and guile will always beat youth and energy." <g>