JDF To Be or Not to Be --Waldman

Romano is not alone in his misgivings about the industry-wide success of interoperability. My good friend, industry expert Steven Schnoll, is also pessimistic. "While standards are critical, I don't see JDF as a panacea for much," argues Schnoll. "We are years away from any credible standard that will be useful in the print media industry. By the way, while JDF is a subset of XML I think the future lies in a more expansive application of XML across multimedia platforms."