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- Live Mesh: Microsoft hews to open standards rule
- As reported pretty much everywhere already (I rarely "scoop" things, a trait that would make me a bad journalist were I ever to become one), Microsoft has provided more details about the new platform that it is calling "Live Mesh." They will likely have the same problem explaining it that...
- Tags: Open Standard, Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, RSS, .Net, Application Servers, Scripting Languages, Middleware, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Development, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Standards competition and globalization
- Standards competition and globalizationIf you ignore the obviousThere are obvious differences between the open standards, de facto or otherwise, that are used by multiple implementations on multiple platforms and the ones that Microsoft proposes and pushes. OOXML Office Open XML claims to be an open standard that allows nearly anyone...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., open standard, globalization
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency
- Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the prices of food and agricultural products, such as produce, fish, flowers, and meat and...
- Tags: Business Process, Food, Open Standard, Oracle Corp., Italy, Infomercati, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap
- One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...
- Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardOk..."...argue there is no need for a rival standard to the widely used Open Document Format ODF..."I don't know a single person who uses it.RE: Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardMicrosoft does not need a "standard" for companies to be able...
- Tags: Open XML, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Gets, open standard
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Will open standards ever come to telecomm?
- Will open standards ever come to telecomm?aTCA -an open standard platform in full deploymentEmerson believes the ATCA market is unfolding as we expected and there’s a wealth of evidence that confirms strong industry adoption of open standards, including ATCA. Some of the estimates of market size that were made were...
- Tags: Emerson, open standard, ATCA
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Will open standards ever come to telecomm?
- Very quietly Motorola has given up on its effort to bring open standards to telecommunications gear. The now-complete sale of its embedded systems group, for $350 million, to Emerson,  is the end of its bet on xTCA, a set of open standards which has long promised s-curve growth in...
- Tags: Open Standard, Telephony, Internet, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Defence Company Looks to open standards to Secure Future Information
- Scientists and engineers at defence research company QinetiQ support their innovative scientific developments with intellectual capital captured from internal and external sources. The organisation is no stranger to the use of technology to support these vast information resources. It has recently implemented a central repository for search and collaboration in...
- Tags: QinetiQ Ltd., Open Standard, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Dell adds support for Ubuntu 7.10 and build-in DVD playback
- Dell adds support for Ubuntu 7.10 and build-in DVD playbackDVD playback and Flash are steps in the right direction.Now if only Dell would get IT's installtion to playback ALL commonfile formats "out of the box" without the "we don't support that"BS that I encountered when I tried Ubuntu on my...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, open standard, OS community, DVD Playback, Dell Computer Corp., Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10, build-in
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Taridium: Comms 1.1 - VoIP Provider Platform
- Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. By combining open source tools and open standards with best of breed hardware and software, taridium can offer one of the best price to performance ratios in...
- Tags: Open Standard, Performance, Platform, High Availability, Taridium, Comm, Performance Management, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-17
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotion
- Determining a move toward open source and open standards needs to become a lot less emotional. And to get there companies need to cook up a policy for evaluating a move to open standards and open source. Those are two of the big takeaways from Andrea Di Maio,...
- Tags: Open Standard, Open-source Software, Di Maio, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsoleteWell, there's one open standard[pre]ASCII[/pre]And unicode. Other than that, none come to mind...I wouldn't say thatM$ adopted the BSD TCP stack for their networking. That was an open standard.I say never[B]Winblad carefully avoided commenting on BillG’s reluctance to embrace open standards but hinted...
- Tags: open standard, Microsoft Corp., Billg, sings blue, BillG sings blue, shorter list, standards
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad says
- Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft's co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry. "The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This...
- Tags: Software, Open Standard, Bill Gates, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Pros seem to outdo cons in new phone charger standard
- Pros seem to outdo cons in new phone charger standardIt's about time. Let's see if it really happensMy cynical side has always suspected that the near universal incompatibility of chargers and other accessories was because they represented the profit margin of subsidized phones. I always dreaded phone upgrades...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, new phone charger, phone, phone charger, con, charger
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- MA finalizes inclusion of Microsoft format in open standards list
- MA finalizes inclusion of Microsoft format in open standards listAmazing what money can buyI would have liked to see MA stick to it's guns, but let's be honest here, who can fault them for the likely 90% off price they got on license costs for the next 5-15 years from...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., open standard
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- MA finalizes inclusion of Microsoft format in open standards list
- Consider Massachusetts' experiment with excluding Microsoft from state government at an end. The Commonwealth has changed its technology policy to accept Office OpenXML, the Microsoft-developed document format that two years ago was found to be insufficiently based on open standards, News.com notes.Two years ago, the state propagated requirements for open...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Standards
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Microsoft submits XPS alternative to PDF to ECMA for standardization
- Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification XPS alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, Microsoft's competitors are lining up to diss Redmond's standards moves.Even Microsoft's critics admit they don't like the "heavy-handed"...
- Tags: Windows client, Vista, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Microsoft delays Office converters for Mac
- Microsoft delays Office converters for MacIs this really a surprise?Anybody with half a brain wouldn't have believed Microsoft's original promise.What incentive does Microsoft have to allow its Mac users to forego upgrading to the latest version of office? By releasing those plugin converters for Office: Mac 2004 Microsoft would have...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Semiconductors, Apple Macintosh, TPM, Microsoft Corp., open standard, chip, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Virtual worlds need open standards
- Virtual worlds need open standardsHave you never heard of VRML or X3D?Need standards!? VRML has been around since 95 and X3D is going strong for several years. Open Standards. ISO at that. www.web3d.org. Jeez, doesn't anyone do their homework anymore? Can't you at least Google?VRML/X3D standards been around for 10...
- Tags: Virtual reality, Scripting languages, open standard, X3D, Virtual Worlds, VRML
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Linux.com: Microsoft issues campaign funding ultimatum to open standards legislation backers
- Via Digg, in a story bearing the headline Microsofts Men in Black kill Florida open standards legislation, Linux.com reports: Two other [Florida] legislative employees who must also remain anonymous told Linux.com that the Microsoft lobbyists implied that elected representatives who voted against Microsofts interests might have a little more trouble...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, IT Management, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
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