on tue NUMBER aug NUMBER rohit khare wrote datapower technology on monday unveiled its network device designed specifically to process xml data unlike competing solutions that process xml data in software datapower s device processes the data in hardware a technology achievement that provides greater performance according to company officials now to do this we all know they have to be cracking the strong crypto used on all transaction in order to process them so this has some preaty heavy implications unless it s just bs kelly explained that converting data into xml increases the file size up to NUMBER times this he said makes processing the data very taxing on application servers datapower believes an inline device is the best alternative or you could just not bloat it NUMBERx to begin with nah that was the whole point of xml afterall to sell more cpus much like oracle s use of java allows them to sell NUMBERx more cpu licenses due to the performance hit in addition to the large file sizes security is also of paramount importance in the world of xml today s firewalls are designed to inspect http traffic only kelly said a soap packet with xml will go straight through a firewall firewalls are blind to xml today again see above they _are_ claiming to decode the crypto our xgNUMBER execution core converts xml to machine code said kelly mmmmmmmmmmm machine code never a good idea adam l duncan beberg URL beberg URL 