A lot of [developers] have an amazingly weak grasp of physics. We've become a much more connected world and there's a lot more to program for than Web services.

Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.

From simple physics, based only on gravity, density and mass, you can explain within an order of magnitude many features of flying, swimming and running. It doesn't matter whether the animal has eight legs, four legs, two, even if it swims with no legs.

The physics of our world, and the ways of putting things into space, has not changed, so the machinery looks much the same, even if the content is much, much more sophisticated.

I think everybody has a different answer for what Web services are.

One of the Microsoft representatives in attendance admitted that unilateral language extensions would be detrimental and said that Microsoft 'wouldn't be cowboys' by unilaterally introducing such extensions in their implementation of Java.