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"Depending on your perspective, either Microsoft has sowed the seeds of its own undoing, or international standards bodies succeeded in forcing Microsoft to open itself up. Either way, Microsoft has given away the key to compatibility with Office documents, allowing all comers to overcome the one barrier that has heretofore prevented customers from dumping Microsoft’s Office suite."

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OB Microsoft Office OOXML standards

"The first of a series of events that will bring together implementors of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally test and discuss implementation issues of ODF with each other. All ODF implementors and/or those looking into the matter are invited to participate in this event on behalf of the Netherlands government and OpenDoc Society."

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OB ODF standards

"At the moment, an effort is under way to create the Continuity of Care Document, an XML-based standard intended to become the equivalent of an RDF or ODF file that lets the various EHR vendors write to the same file format."

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OB ODF healthcare standards

"What then does open computing mean to governments - and what might it be worth considering when specifying requirements? Simply put – adopt open standards to avoid being locked-in to any one IT vendor, ensure the software you use fully implements these open standards, and consider open source alongside closed source software based on functionality, proven maturity, availability and cost of support, and value for money."

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OB open source standards government

"The Department of Energy will be pushing out $4.5 billion for smart grid investments as part of the federal government's economic stimulus plan, but unless smart-grid standards are developed quickly, the government risks wasting its money on soon-obsolete technologies that could be incompatible with one another, regulators and industry representatives warned Congress Tuesday."

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OB energy standards

"It's all very well to be really creative and "think outside the box" (gag) if what you're designing is intended to be a puzzle: a good example of that is J.K. Rowling's home page. On the other hand, creativity for its own sake just confuses users. I can think of dozens, perhaps hundreds of examples of user interfaces done badly for the simple reason that the designer decided that it would be cooler to have some spiffy art and effects than to follow any standards."

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OB standards UI

"Everyone’s talking about building a cloud these days. But if the IT world is filled with computing clouds, will each one be treated like a separate island or will open standards allow all to interoperate with each other? That’s one of the questions being examined by the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together."

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OB cloud standards

"WSTF officials said customers and vendors alike, independent of their geographic location, can dynamically test their applications against available implementations to ensure interoperability is preserved. As an open community, WSTF has made it easy to introduce new interoperability scenarios and approve work through simple majority governance."

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OB standards interoperability web services SOA

"The WSTF initiative is open to all software vendors, service providers and customers interested in furthering Web services and their use throughout the industry. Members are able to recommend and initiate work on new scenarios, supporting both emerging specifications and approved standards. Initial membership includes Active Endpoints, AIAG, Axway, CISCO, eviware, Ford Motors, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Software AG, Teamlog, and TIBCO Software. The Automotive Industry Association (AIAG) is the first industry association member of the WSTF."

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OB standards interoperability web services SOA

"The Web Services Test Forum aims to establish interoperability among products built to the IETF, Oasis, World Wide Web Consortium, and other standards."

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OB standards interoperability web services SOA

"Join us for Cloud Connect: the premier technology event for defining, framing, developing, and transitioning your IT portfolio into the cloud. As organizations consider cloud computing to process their business’ critical data, it is imperative they understand the platforms, applications and risks of moving traditional information out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. Cloud computing continues to gain steam, but there’s still significant ambiguity around this emerging architectural approach and about how many of your applications and how much of your data can safely and efficiently be moved to the cloud."

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OB cloud standards conference

"In a perfect world of the idealist software engineer, software architecture is written in response to a documented set of requirements. The sequence of events in a perfect world usually involves the following steps. This is somewhat generic and there are many variations to this."

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OB standards architecture

"13 members of the TC in Norway has left their Standards Body in protest. They say that the Standards Body has lost its credibility in the IT area. Remember that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical committee."

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OB standards Norway

"Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Sunday unveiled the World Wide Web Foundation, an initiative to spread the Web to developing countries and maintain its openness."

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OB standards W3C

Follow link for text of Swedish standard.

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OB standards ODF

"The biggest change in JavaScript 2's direction is that the ECMAScript 4 project has been dropped. That change resolves a long-simmering debate as to whether ECMAScript 3.1 or ECMAScript 4 should be the basis of JavaScript 2. (ECMAScript is the formal name for the standard, vendor-neutral version of JavaScript.)"

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OB standards JavaScript ECMA

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OB standards

"Creating an alternate standards organization will be an exceedingly tough task, but standards are not an area where compromises can be tolerated. Standards govern our lives in a million different ways and the common man and woman deserve to have their standards created in an open, transparent manner that benefits everyone. Let me know what you think of the idea of creating an open standards organization for the benefit of the emerging economies."

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OB ISO IEC OOXML India standards

Interesting presentations about interoperability in the EU from a meeting that took place in June. EIF is the European Interoperability Framework.

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OB standards EU EIF IDABC

Standards humor, maybe?

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OB standards humor