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The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards: What Open Standards?Am curious to know what open standards you are referring to...if you are talking about Google's attempt to use html and javascript to render the user interface of their office productivity apps, this is a sad case of missing the forrest for the trees! The question that you...; Tags: Zoho, Google Inc., open standard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2009-09-27
The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards: On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-09-25
Open Group forms Cloud Work Group to spur enterprise cloud adoption and security via open standards: The Cloud Work Group is in a unique position to develop a common understanding between buyers and suppliers of how companies can use cloud products and services in a flexible and secure way to realize its full potential. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Open Group, Security, Open Standard, Cloud Work Group, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2009-08-17
Eurocrats face proprietary FUD attack: Maybe open, transparent standards are incompatible with free competition. Maybe open standards are just a tool by which open source aims to destroy innovation. Maybe the last 40 years of innovation within open standards like the Internet Protocol, the World Wide Web, the IEEE 802.11 standards, and the rest never...; Tags: Innovation, Open Standard, Standards, Attack, Quality, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2009-07-09
Microsoft plug and play father of open standards: Microsoft plug and play father of open standardsMicrosoft and plug and playUh, 8 years before before Win95 and "Plug and Play" was the LMI-Lambda with it's Nubus slots from MIT. Then in 1987 the Macintosh II with Nubus slots was introduced 8 years before Win95. MS just coined the name...; Tags: plug-and-Play, Plug-and-Play, Microsoft Corp., NuBus, open standard; Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Microsoft plug and play father of open standards: Open standards are great, open source is better, but real progress starts with plug and play modularity. Which the health IT industry, through CCHIT and the HIMSS trade group with which it is joined at the hip, is fighting tooth and nail. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Open Standard, Microsoft Corp., Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2009-06-12
Overused words of the decade: 'open' and 'enterprise': "Open" is what we would like every piece of code to aspire to, and "enterprise" means a harmonious collection of industrious people and purring machines. They are the magical marketing words, evoking images of all that is good and wholesome. But perhaps they are getting overused. Everything...; Tags: Open Standard, Seth Godin, Enterprise, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2009-05-13
Texas Democrats push ODF standard: Texas Democrats push ODF standardMS view is anti-competitive when using an open standard Bet they would not say that if the bill supported their format.the bill is supported by smart TexansTexas gave us some of the best people in the nation.It is no surprise that astute people from there see...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, open standard, Microsoft Corp., ISO, docx; Discussion threads 2009-03-19
Defense Department makes more open source moves: Defense Department makes more open source movesNot as big a surprise as you might thinkThe Defense Department may not have been developing much of their own software (thus insuring a good livelihood for generations of civilian programmers and designers, many of them veterans), but they are used to having access...; Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, open source move, open source, Thumbs Down; Discussion threads 2009-03-18
Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop: Windows 7: search your university library from your desktopThe next exploit in Windows NTWindows security nightmare...Relevance?? Please explain...Useful tip! Thanks...The blog not previous commentSo...You are saying search to a remote location is a security hole? Darn and here I thought I was save every time I search Google from Firefox's...; Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows 7, open standard, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, OpenSearch, Microsoft Corp., desktop; Discussion threads 2009-01-17
What Meeks means by OpenOffice being sick: What Meeks means by OpenOffice being sickFully AgreedThe OpenOffice.org people have always been helpful when dealing with support and such, I think that others should give back to the company including Novell and IBM.I see that they are all ready to work on the project and create their own version,...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Meeks, OpenOffice, open standard, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2009-01-12
Can VistA overcome?: Even if open source isn't mandated, it's now very possible that open standards will be embraced in the Obama package, which should cut costs for everyone down the road. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Open Standard, Handwriting, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Eclipse, Vertical Industries, Open Source, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2009-01-08
Clinical data, billing data and open standards: Clinical data, billing data and open standardsHL7 StandardsIf the HL7 standards have a "problem," it is that they are too flexible. Vendors can implement them different ways. However, it is probably a better, if not best, way to interface doctors with labs and insurance companies.The bigger key is an intermediary...; Tags: Insurance, billing, Clinical Data, open standard, billing data, insurance company; Discussion threads 2008-12-12
Clinical data, billing data and open standards: Getting vendors to commit to HL7, and getting their products to truly interconnect, is at the heart of health IT reform. Open source can be the glue that allows all systems to make these links work. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Open Standard, Billing, Health Care, HL7, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-12-11
Bruce Perens gives doctors a present: Perens' simple standards can do a lot to herd those cats. Like most great inventors he cuts through the complexity to simple ideas, simple goals you either meet or don't if you want to claim you're on the open standard train. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Bruce Perens, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Standard, Quality; Blog posts 2008-10-16
Growing open standards pressure on healthcare: Growing open standards pressure on healthcareStandards? What standards????I work in healthcare IT, and to be honest, the greatest problem that I encounter is the incompatability of user systems. Our medical records filing software isn't compatable with our medication chart software; which leaves staff having to manually re-inter data that should...; Tags: open standard, health care; Discussion threads 2008-10-13
Open source protectionism?: Open source protectionism?Advocating Open Source locally is fine, however...Mandating it should not be done. I support an open architecture and the mandate of open standards, but not the enforcement of Open Source. If MS adopts ODF well and it makes sense for you, then you should be free...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source, open standard, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-10-13
Growing open standards pressure on healthcare: The devil here is in the details, but we do have the ingredients of an agreement, in the form of Internet standards, XML technologies, and such standards as HL7. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Open Standard, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-10-13
Open source as a government mandate: Open source as a government mandateGovernment mandateWe're always better off when government tells us what to do. Removing choice eliminates the mistakes we would make and provides everyone the wisdom far greater than our own of those who have chosen to work for the government.In fact, many of us...; Tags: Vertical industries, open source, government mandate, open standard; Discussion threads 2008-09-22
Open source and the hardware roadblock: There's a lot of open source hardware out there. But not in stores. Ã‚Â (The secret answer may be behind this monkey.) The obvious reason is that hardware requires a business model for distribution. Hardware also costs money to make. Why invest in what everyone else can make...; Tags: Open Standard, Hardware, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-30