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Re:XML Appliance by jen20 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:01AM (#35372837)
In the early 00s, I regularly used to drive between the south-east and south-west of England, and one of the cut-throughs to avoid the worst motorway is a town named Bracknell.

For years there was a prominent building on that route for a company whose name I cannot remember, but the tagline on their sign was "The XML Company". If that was happening in Bracknell, I can only imagine how crazy the valley was...

Worrying thing is 20+ years later, I'd take XML over YAML without hesitation...

Re:XML Appliance by runlevel1 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:33PM (#35381742)
It's name is/was Software AG.[^1][^2] What an impressively generic name. Looks like they still have an office in Bracknell.

[1]: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2661499/software-ag--the-x...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_AG

Re:XML Appliance by jen20 on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:40AM (#35386213)
Yes, that’s the one, thank you!

I did notice in ~2019 that they were no longer in the same building (which appeared empty), guess they just moved somewhere less prominent.