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Tag Archives: Interoperability
Microsoft survey on “perceptions of interoperability”
Microsoft appears to be running a survey on “perceptions of interoperability.” I’ll let you decide for yourself whether this is phrased in a completely neutral and objective manner, but you might want to weigh in if you feel you want … Continue reading
Compatibility, interoperability, and interchangeability
I often find it amusing when people pull out a very significant sounding, obviously committee-written definition of “interoperability.” If I didn’t know better, I would have thought that the definition was written and then delivered on a stone tablet. Is … Continue reading
links for 2007-02-22
Linux Linux Arrives on 50,000 Brazilian Desktops “Three companies in Brazil�BitWay Computadores, EnabledPeople, and Imtech�have begun deploying Linux-powered desktop PCs for the Brazilian federal government’s “Computers for All” program, EnabledPeople announced today.” (tags: brazil desktop linux) Dell gives desktop Linux … Continue reading
Interoperability, more and less
During 2006 I wrote a lot about interoperability, though some of my colleagues accused me of never coming right out and saying what it is in a pithy definition. That may be true, but I think I talked around it … Continue reading
ECMA passage of Open XML was no surprise
I’m hoping that this is more or less the end of what I write about the ECMA vote last week, but given the thousands of words that have been written on this, I thought I would clear something up.
Posted in Document Formats, Standards
Tagged ECMA, Interoperability, Microsoft, ODF, OOXML
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Interoperability vs. intraoperability: your open choice
In mathematics the phrase “by abuse of terminology” is sometimes used in advanced books and lectures. There is no dishonesty intended, it’s just a simple way of saying “I’m omitting some of the details and it’s not quite exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source, Software, Standards
Tagged Interoperability, intraoperability, ODF
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links for 2006-11-20
Semantic Web HR-XML blog – Web 3.0 The next big thing. Again. (tags: semanticweb) Algorithms and Animations The Sorting Algorithm Demo “The animations on this page illustrate a number of different sequential and parallel sorting algorithms.” (tags: algorithms sorting programming … Continue reading
Frontiers of Intellectual Property slide: “The effect of open standards”
Another slide for discussion from my talk at the University of Texas School of Law: The effect of open standards Standardization drives software interoperability and interchangeability. This breaks the old-style dependence on proprietary methods, trade secrets, and single providers. It … Continue reading
Interoperability and substitutability
One of the benefits of interoperability is substitutability: the ability to take one software application from one provider and put in its place another application from a possibly different provider. Open standards enable interoperability and hence substitutability. If I were … Continue reading
DRM and interoperability
One of my del.icio.us links that will show up today is to an article about the Coral Consortium’s latest spec for DRM interoperability. First, let me state that I am not a DRM technical expert in any way, but in … Continue reading
Continua Health Alliance
We’re a part of this. See the CRN article “Intel-led group seeks medical device specs“. An excerpt: An Intel-led consortium of more than 20 companies hopes to smooth out technical and business issues inhibiting the rise of interoperable medical devices … Continue reading
The World Is Clamoring for ODF! (YES!)
A friend pointed me to Matt Asay’s blog entry called “The World Is Clamoring for ODF! (Not)“. I respectfully disagree. Strange conclusion from evidence of something else. First of all, the basic evidence mentioned is misleading. How long has PDF … Continue reading
Tom Glover blog post on barriers to interoperability – please join the discussion
IBMer Tom Glover has started a blog thread on “barriers to interoperability”. Please check it out and join in the the discussion in the comments. Thanks.
Interoperability: Open vs Proprietary
Interoperability can be discussed on a technical level (is my program enabled to talk to your API) as well as on a legal and permissions level (is my program allowed to talk to your API, assuming I can even find … Continue reading
Some interoperability scenarios
To frame the discussion around interoperability, I thought it would be useful to work from some example scenarios. I’m not claiming that these are either exhaustive or non-overlapping, but since they represent common applications, they should be useful to fix … Continue reading
Interoperability: Enough Said?
For several weeks now I’ve been thinking about writing an entry on interoperability but for various reasons I did not. For example, I wanted to make sure I answered questions like: Isn’t all this stuff obvious? Do we need to … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Standards
Tagged Eclipse, Interoperability, Linux, web services, XML
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