I read this article that kind of tells the story of the X-team we read about in "XSLT for Dummies" Link: XML's growing pains- ADTmag.com. and it kind of explains Jtrana's Question about why everything is so complicated. Those who developed XML had different needs and thus developed different parts of it to fulfill them. We are looking at a subset that seem to be commonly applicable in business, which is more and more being conducted over the web.
BIT in general seems to really be about showing us what is possible given some tools that have been developed--not exactly what we should do. Certainly it's easy to go out and buy a solution for a business process, but I'm glad we are gaining some knowledge of what is possible so that some day as a decision-maker I'm not left at the whim of some vendor as Bud pointed out.
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