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- OASIS
- (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, Billerica, MA, www.oasis-open.org) A membership organization founded in 1993 as SGML Open in Pittsburgh, PA. It was renamed OASIS Open...
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- Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.
- OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...
- Tags: The Group Inc., Interoperability, Grid, OASIS, Standards, NIST, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Tags: Business Process, BPEL, Workflow, OASIS, Bottom Line, BPEL4People, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- ODF and differences of opinion
- ODF and differences of opinionNot really[i]It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.[/i]Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.According to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, OASIS, OpenDocument Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Fighting SOA complexity with lots of committees
- As you may have heard, the OASIS group has responded to demands to simplify SOA by announcing the formation of six new committees intended to advance the Service Component Architecture family of specifications. It's tempting to launch in with with some lame committee jokes, such as "a...
- Tags: SOA, Committee, OASIS, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Is security the SOA showstopper?
- A new report in InformationWeek by Andy Dornan calls SOA security "one treacherous journey."Vendors and committees have thrown a bewildering plethora of immature or incompatible security specs and solutions at usTreacherous indeed. SOA increasingly addresses services on both sides of the firewall, and therefore opens up the most critical business...
- Tags: General, Joe McKendrick, OASIS, security, SOA, SOA Security, Standards Watch, Web Services, Web Services Security
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Optimized Airport Security Infrastructure System (OASIS)
- It has been suggested that the current security measures being implemented in airports around the country produce "Soft targets" in the form of lengthy queues. These soft targets heighten the risk of a terrorist attack within airport premises that could potentially have the same impact as destroying a commercial flight....
- Tags: Airport Security, OASIS, Security Measure, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Security, Business Operations, Government
- White papers 2007-04-09
- SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing
- Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture SCA and its sibling Service Data Objects SDO the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors behind the developments have agreed to hand over the specifications for management and maturity to the Organization for...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SCA/SDO, OASIS, SOA, Java
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?
- File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?TARDISYeah, but are they stuck with that stupid postbox or does theirs morph like it should?Microsoft, the lords of timeOh that wonderful 'open' standard. 6000 pages in which we learn tat any implementation of MS XML must be...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Miguel, OpenDocument Format, OASIS
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Gartner: Web services standardization process has 'lost momentum'
- OASIS has recently conferred official "standards" status on WS-Notification, which provides a standardized way for one Web service or other entity to disseminate information to another set of Web services without having to have prior knowledge of those services. WS-Notification standardizes the way Web services interact using "Notifications" or...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., OASIS, WS-Notification OASIS, WS-Eventing, Web, Web service, specification
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Delivering on the identity promise
- This evening, at the reception for Digital ID World, someone asked me what I thought of the conference. I've been to every DIDW since it started (5 years now). I realized that the conversations and talks had changed from "won't it be cool when we..." to "this is what we...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., specification, identity
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- IBM's Sutor takes gloves off on MS ODF comment
- IBM's vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor appears quite peeved by an article in eWeek:In an eWeek article just published ("Microsoft to OpenDocument Alliance: Where's the Choice?"), Microsoft is accusing the supporters of the OpenDocument Format, a true open standard from the OASIS standards organization, of somehow...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- OASIS? XML? Permanence?
- OASIS? XML? Permanence?Heck even data crystalscan be corrupted by Techno Mages! I doubt that any data storage plan is good for 60 years - and even if you COULD find a medium that can hold data for 60 years, a human could find a way to lose it. I suppose...
- Tags: OpenOffice, XML, OASIS, Shostakovich, OpenOffice.org
- Discussion threads 2005-11-22
- OASIS? XML? Permanence?
- My favorite CD has Ormandy's Philadephia orchestra playing the Shostakovich fifth. The recording was made in I think 1963 with the CD replacing the LP sometime in the early ninties. Microsoft's mindshare means that whatever it calls XML becomes XML.Both, however, still work as well as they ever did with...
- Tags: XML
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- IBM's Sutor seeks input on ODF Commitment to Action
- IBM vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor has proposed what he calls the OpenDocument Format Commitment to Action. Currently, the Commitment is a six point credo see below that urges citizens, business users, and CIOs to demand that their governments, IT departments and vendors support...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
- OASIS submits OpenDocument as standard
- OASIS submits OpenDocument as standardTrain is picking up steam!Well, document format standardization is certainly the movement du jour. Any productivity suite worth its salt will soon come with ODF support in some form. Even that great behemoth in the northwest will succumb to the will of the people....
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, ISO Approval, OpenDocument Format, ISO, OpenOffice, OASIS, Microsoft Corp., XML
- Discussion threads 2005-10-10
- In raising ante on definition of 'open', Sun shuts its critics up
- In raising ante on definition of 'open', Sun shuts its critics upSun made its point...... and backed away before resentment arose. Good move.Now we know that ODF may infringe on IP. That was Sun's point, and, far from retracting it, the company has received confirmation.Remember when Microsoft bought...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Sun Microsystems Inc., OASIS, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-09-30
- In raising ante on definition of 'open', Sun shuts its critics up
- Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Massachusetts' recent decision to standardize on the royalty-free OpenDocument Format ODF as one of the standard file formats that will be used to store and exchange that state's documents the other format was PDF, along comes news that may...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
- IT productivity? Let the good times roll
- IT productivity? Let the good times rollGee maybenow that the pace of hardware tech is slowing, we can spend MORE time on SOFTWARE. The extra "time" should be used to take good software and ENGINEER it to become great software! Software engineering - what a concept! Once software development becomes...
- Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, OASIS, productivity gain, Information and Communication Technology, software, technology innovation, IT Support, information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- New OASIS chairman replaced after only five months
- New OASIS chairman replaced after only five monthsFYIA much older standards body ([url="http://www.jedec.org"]JEDEC[/url]) which deals almost entirely in hardware [1] has a [url="http://www.jedec.org/Home/manuals/JEDEC_Patent_Policy_Stmt.pdf"]patent policy[/url] much stricter than OASIS' current RAND policy.If OASIS had adopted JEDEC's "unencumbered if possible, RAND if you must" policy from the beginning, I suspect that the...
- Tags: Corporate governance, OASIS, board, Eduardo Gutentag
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
- Good day, OASIS
- Good day, OASISI preferMiss Good Night ala James Bond to a Mr. Good Day . . . ;)But that would have been Gutenabend...... and no one wants to see more abends than necessary.[Not perfectly accurate, but too good to overlook.]
- Tags: Good Day, OASIS
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
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