...What operating system to purchase in order to protect the current IT infrastructure? What Internet search engine to purchase for the company’s intranet? Whether to buy a single, double, or...
... 4. The customer has been both educated and comforted. Free and open source software is new enough that most potential users and commercial customers had little accurate knowledge about it...
Yesterday I distributed the latest issue of Standards Today, my free eJournal of "News, Ideas and Analysis." While the central focus of Standards Today is (wait for it...) standards, I...
...comments in all (my comments can be found here). According to the announcement: When departments have adopted these open standards: • citizens, businesses and voluntary organisations will no longer need...
...not only be entered into the computer, but it has to come out again in a human-readable form. Unless everyone is using exactly the same computer, a way needs to...
...terrible idea! We should repeal all taxes! Why, if we just let businesses run things, everything would be fine! Just fine! The best way to let a free market economy...
...system, data communication, messaging, and common syntax level, the common semantics required for application integration has not been developed. The standardization of common semantics depends on particular vertical industries such...
...behind it have withstood the test of time, but whether it is common enough and costly enough in actuality to warrant policy changes. The available evidence suggests not, implying that...
...interoperability efforts are available at http://www.microsoft.com/interop. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential....
...standards, auditing requirements and certification programs created to maintain end-to-end security within complex commercial environments, such as the payment card industry. But much more work remains to be done to...