...story on the Massachusetts decision, based on interviews with Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn, the OASIS Open Document TC chair, and Microsoft representatives. For a free subscription, go to: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/subscribe/ ...
...of 1988). PowerOpen would create standards to make it even easier for platform vendors to design computers based on (and therefore commit to) the PowerPC chip line, and for ISVs...
...annual costs, absent natural disasters. Upgrading, on the other hand, can often be long-delayed, absent competitive pressures. Every private business, public agency, and utility needs to decide when the benefits...
...is part of the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (the current Secretary is William Francis Galvin, which explains in part why his name has come up so often...
...Don Tennant, the Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld who wrote a gracious and extremely complementary “welcome” article to Louis. Tennant briefly recounts the history of Peter Quinn’s unhappy time as the champion...
...its Enterprise Technical Reference Model for final comment last August, one of the pieces of disinformation that was promoted by opponents of ODF was that all towns and cities in...
...computers heavily. A well-established bodyof literature has examined the economics of standardization, for examplethe market’s tendency to create winners and losers through network effects.Despite the great success of this economic...
Standard setting organizations have for many years required members to commit to license patents essential to use of standards on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory terms. Unfortunately, SSOs have not defined...
...heterogeneity in the strategies adopted by companies with respect to the timing of filing of patents then claimed as essential for the standard. Some companies seem to strategically postpone the...
In this paper, the author examines standardization not just as a technical topic, but as a critical business issue with wide-ranging implications. He defines several types of standards, and examines...