By Erik Small -

An interesting blog post popped up in March (seems like ages ago, but only a few short months) by Jonathan Lampe, VP of Product Management at Ipswitch. He poses a relevant question regarding file transfer — “Why is FTP still prominently used to move files in the business field — why not use SOAP (simple object access protocol)  or a transaction-friendly process?” Lampe explains his opinion on the subject by using his previous experience with customers in the banking industry.

“But why bother moving FILES around when we could all be doing little bitty TRANSACTIONS to each other using SOAP or other transactional-friendly schemes?   The answer to that question didn’t come to me until I’d spent several years in the field, traveling between banks, data centers and large corporations in support of distributed, enterprise-class file transfers.”

Read the full blog post on the Knowledge Transfer blog from Ipswitch File Transfer.