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| Standards Bodies and Consortia | | AIAG - Develops standards for the automotive industry | | ANSI - American National Standards Institute | | ASTM - an international voluntary standards organization that develops and produces technical standards for | | CableLabs - pursues new cable telecommunications technologies and their integration | | DCML - provides a standard model to describe one or more data center environments | | DMTF - Develops standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environment | | ECMA - International European association for standardizing information and communication systems | | ETSI - produces European telecommunications standards | | FIX - messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages | | FreeStandards.org - Accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through standards. | | ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | | IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission | | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc | | IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force | | ISO - International Organization for Standardization | | ITU - International Telecommunications Union | | JCP - Java Community Process | | JXTA - Combination P2P open standards with Java open source implementation. | | LibertyAlliance - Liberty Alliance Project | | NHIN - a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services that enables the secure exchange of health information over the internet | | OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems | | ODMG - Object Data Management Group | | OGC - international consortium for geospatial and location based services standards | | OMA - Creates open standards and specifications for interoperable mobile services. | | OMG - Object Management Group | | OpenGroup - an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium | | OSGi - dynamic module system for Java | | RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards | | RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues. | | SunSpec - defines open data standards for the renewable energy and photovoltaic (PV) industries | | TCG - Industry standards group to help create specs for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security te | | UDDI.org - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration | | VoiceXML - an industry organization formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML | | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | | workforce-xml - standardization of xml integration of devices/apps for the workforce | | WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization |
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| February 2010 | Denmark adopts ODF and PDF/A
Central government bodies in Denmark will have to use open document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), from 2011, the Danish parliament has ruled.
- ZDNet Asia, February 3, 2010 | Industry calls for smart card security standard
The solution will build on an open standard already implemented by the four partner companies, and that will eventually be governed by an independent body.
- EE Times India, February 1, 2010 | | January 2010 | Oracle changes the IT strategy landscape
The $4.3 billion of research and development budgeted for fiscal year 2011 will allow Oracle to safeguard and reinvigorate Sun products and to make this hardware the “gold standard” for running Oracle applications. The announcement also included a commitment to continue its open standards efforts, specifically mentioning Java and MySQL; to this end, Oracle has expanded its upcoming Java developer’s conference to locations in Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
- TechRepublic, January 29, 2010 | Danish Parliament Sets Rules for Open Document Formats
The Danish Parliament has decided on a set of rules to which open document formats must adhere if they are to be used by state authorities after April 1, 2011, Denmark's Liberal Party said on Friday.
- PC World, January 29, 2010 | Apple becomes more closed with each new device...
OPINION: "Since the introduction of the iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad, Apple is becoming less and less open, it using fewer standard components and chips, and far fewer Internet technologies common to Mac/PC desktop and laptop systems."
- ZD Net, January 28, 2010 | Major Smart Card Market Players Join Forces to Advance Open and Secure Public Transport Smart Card Applications
Transport Ticketing 2010 Conference & Expo, London - January 26, 2010 - Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) and Oberthur Technologies S.A., and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and INSIDE Contactless S.A. announced they have launched an industry initiative to provide a new security solution for next-generation smart card-based public transport applications.
- MoreRFID, January 27, 2010 | Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
“The modifications made to the suggestions given by an expert committee recommendations would make the policy very weak and not favour open standards,” says Dr G Nagarajan, chairman of the Free Software Foundation of India, which advocates that the software should be free and open for all. The draft is also not clear on whether it will also impact existing e-governance projects or only new tenders.
- The Economic Times, January 19, 2010 | Twitter Punches Back at Facebook Connect
Twitter is using an open, standards based approach with OAuth for authentication and data sharing, while Facebook uses proprietary protocols for Facebook Connec
- PAETEC, January 18, 2010 | Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010
Think of the words "standards war," and unless you're a standards wonk like m...oh, never mind...you're likely to think of the battle between the Betamax and VHS video tape formats. That's because videos are consumer products that just about everyone uses, and therefore the bloodshed in that standards war was not only shed in public view, but the some of the blood that was shed was shed by the public (i.e., those that bought video players supporting Betamax, the losing, but arguably superior, format). Fast forward (pun intended) to the present, and the trademarks "HD DVD and "Blu-ray" may ring a bell - and that's no coincidence.
- consortiuminfo.org, January 11, 2010 | 9 Reasons Why SVGs are Important for the Web
OPINION: Despite being a W3C specification since 2001, Scalable Vector Graphics have never received the attention they deserve. Primarily, this is because the majority of web users (using Internet Explorer) are unable to view the images without a plugin.
- sitepoint, January 8, 2010 | Obama's CTO Aneesh Chopra: Innovation and open technology standards are key
The message of White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra on Thursday was both clear and irritatingly abstract. For the United States to pull out of recession and strive, government and businesses must be nimble and transformative, he said.
- Los Angeles Time, January 8, 2010 | The rise of web applications and Chrome: it's all about timescales
The significant thing about Chrome is that it sets a new way of thinking. It does not mean Chrome will dominate the world. Open standards mean that other companies could provide similar services. It’s the 80% scenario.
- Free Software Magazine, January 8, 2010 | Why You Should Use OpenGL And Not DirectX
OPINION: OpenGL is better for the future of games OpenGL is a non-profit open standard created to allow users on any platform to experience the highest quality ...
- gamasutra.com, January 8, 2010 | Automation World Readers voice innovation needs and concerns
In October, Automation World conducted an Internet survey asking readers about their feelings regarding automation innovation. Almost 100 responded, sharing insights, concerns and their outlook for the future. Here are some of the responses compiled by Contributing Editor Alex Anderson.
- AutomationWorld, January 7, 2010 | HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year, everyone!
- OpenStandards.net, January 1, 2010 | | December 2009 | Meet the New OpenID Foundation Board Members
OpenID, the open standard for federated user identity across multiple websites, is led by the OpenID Foundation. That organization announced the election of its newest Board members today. These are the people who will be moving and shaking OpenID on a policy and standards level.
- ReadWriteWeb, December 30, 2009 | An application war is brewing in the cloud
Today's cloud-computing vendors focus on infrastructure, but that won't be the case for long. It can't be. As competing vendors seek to differentiate themselves, they're going to move "up the stack" into applications.
- THE OPEN ROAD, December 30, 2009 | Everything in health care depends on execution
NHIN-Connect was designed to ease the work of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), but now it will define it. The open standards and open interfaces of the Health Internet will let doctors get records, not just between Atlanta and Macon, but between New York and Los Angeles.
- ZD Net, December 28, 2009 | Microsoft Loses to i4i
Microsoft Corporation, one of the world’s largest software companies, has lost another battle. The company has been slapped with a $290 million penalty for infringement of Canada-based i4i’s patent number 5787449.
- Zacks.com, December 24, 2009 | For Google, The Meaning Of Open Is When It's Convenient For Them
OPINION: Yesterday, Google published a long manifesto on the "meaning of open" in the form of an email to all employees republished as a blog post. In it, senior VP of product management Jonathan Rosenberg, makes an eloquent argument for why open systems always win and urges Google's employees to always strive to be open when designing products. An open Internet spurs innovation and brings more consumers on board, which ultimately means more searches and increased use of Web applications.
- The Washington Post, December 22, 2009 | XSPA Profile of SAML and XSPA Profile of XACML approved as OASIS Standards for Healthcare
The OASIS international consortium today announced two new information standards that give hospitals, insurers, and others in the healthcare community much-needed mechanisms for exchanging privacy policies, evaluating consent directives, and determining authorizations. The Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) for Healthcare and the XSPA Profile of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) for Healthcare have both been approved as OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
- THE MEDICAL NEWS, December 19, 2009 | Google Grabs Plaxo’s CTO To “Turbocharge” The Opening Of The Social Web
Back in June, Google lost Kevin Marks, one of the social web’s main proponents within the company. Today, they’ve gained a new one: Joseph Smarr.
- TechCru;nh, December 18, 2009 | 10 points on the mandatory use of open standards in Hungary
Hungarian Parliament has made the use of open standards mandatory by law in the intercommunication between public administration offices, public utility companies, citizens and voluntarily joining private companies, conducted via the central governmental system.
- Nyílt Szabvány Szövetség - Open Standards Alliance, December 17, 2009 | In Letter to FCC, Obama Administration Wants Open Standards and Networks for Public Safety
A government letter sent on behalf of the Obama Administration to the agency charged with rolling out a national broadband plan repeatedly refers to the need for open platforms, standards and networks going forward in order to keep the country safe.
- BroadbandBreakfast.com, December 15, 2009 | | November 2009 | Major Companies Endorse Legal Agreement For Open Standards
Sharing open source software just got a whole lot easier. The Open Web Foundation has announced the availability of the Open Web Foundation Agreement, and some huge corporations - namely Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo - have given the arrangement their figurative seal of approval.
- WebProNews, November 17, 2009 | Protests against proposed redefinition of open standards within the EU
An unofficial new draft of an amended EU interoperability framework for e-government services has fuelled the dispute over the definition of open standards. Open source associations have criticised the fact that the draftPDF of a planned amendment to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) published by a Dutch journalist includes patented and proprietary solutions in an "openness continuum". They are concerned that this could significantly restrict the usability of open source software in public administration.
- h-online.com, November 10, 2009 | Oracle Outlines Sun Software Plans
With the deal's approval still pending, Oracle offers more details on what it plans to do if it can close on its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
- internetnews.com, November 3, 2009 | Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds
ANNOUNCE: Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat EnterpriseVirtualization portfolio.
- reuters, November 3, 2009 | Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries
Type designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption could come sooner than many expected.
- ars technica, November 2, 2009 | | October 2009 | DocumentCloud Going Open Source Every Step of the Way
What does it mean to work on a project where open-source principles are written into the founding contract? A little over a month after receiving a 2009 Knight News Challenge grant, DocumentCloud released its first open-source component.
- MediaShift Idea Lab, October 29, 2009 | Opera CEO: Browser Ballot Is Good for Consumers
In an interview with eWEEK, Jon Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, which brought an antitrust case against Microsoft in European Union courts, talks about some of the latest developments in the case.
- eWeek.com, October 28, 2009 | Making the leap from virtualization to cloud computing: A roadmap and guide
This latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion focuses on enterprise IT architects making a leap from virtualization to cloud computing.
- ZD Net, October 15, 2009 | Google To Open Online E-Book Store
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Google revealed its plans to launch Google Editions, an online store to sell e-books. The company says the store will launch in the first half of 2010 with about half a million e-books.
- search engine land, October 15, 2009 | G2iX Unveils First Server Using Open Standards for Custom PaaS Creation Inside the Enterprise
PRESS RELEASE: Today at the ITU Telecom World (http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009/) conference, G2iX unveiled the Morph CloudServer (http://www.g2ix.com/morph), the first appliance using open standards to dynamically create custom Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. Following industry-leading standards established by Amazon's (http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/morph/) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)) and Eucalyptus (http://www.eucalyptus.com/), the Morph CloudServer offers unprecedented flexibility, control and agility for developing and deploying software on a massive scale.
- EarthTimes, October 7, 2009 | | September 2009 | IBM Building 'Smarter City' Cloud In China
The center will be built with IBM's CloudBurst hardware and will be used to modernize a municipal administration and economy.
- InformationWeek, September 25, 2009 | Cloud Computing Gains Momentum but Security and Privacy Issues Persist
"What tends to worry people [about cloud computing] are issues like security and privacy of data -- that's definitely what we often hear from our customers," said Chris Willey, interim chief technology officer of Washington, D.C.
- Government Technology, September 25, 2009 | FCC Chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski waded directly into the network neutrality fight today, launching a new proceeding designed to turn the FCC's existing "principles" into "rules"—and to add two more. The rules would apply equally to wired and wireless connections.
- ars technica, September 21, 2009 | Cloud Computing Explained In Four Paragraphs
Cloud computing. The definition for that two-word term varies greatly depending on who’s doing the talking. But during Atlanta Linux Fest, held Sept. 19, Canonical’s John Pugh offered a simple definition that brings order to cloud computing, SaaS (software as as service), platform as a service (PaaS) and some other hot terms in IT. Here’s the scoop.
- MSPmentor, September 21, 2009 | Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front'
You say you want a revolution? Google's hoping you do -- at least, when it comes to being able to take your cloud-stored data wherever you want.
- pcworld.com, September 14, 2009 | VMware Submits VMware vCloud API Specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced the submission of its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to enable consistent mobility, provisioning, management, and service assurance of applications running in internal and external clouds.
- JDJ, September 1, 2009 | | August 2009 | Xen Project Launches New Open Cloud Initiative
Introduction of Xen Cloud Platform Will Accelerate Customer Adoption of Open Enterprise-Class Cloud Infrastructures
- REUTERS, August 31, 2009 | Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing
More than 80% of large enterprises are at least in trial stage on a cloud computing initiative, according to a new study released today, signaling potentially solid demand for this new style of managed services.
- telephonyonline.com, August 25, 2009 | SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers
OPINION: Indeed, the new SONY readers are slick devices that feel like premium products when you use them, much like the feeling of when you handle something like, well, an Apple product, for lack of a better comparison. But unlike Apple, and unlike Amazon, SONY’s readers are both premium in build quality and embrace open standards.
- ZD Net, August 25, 2009 | Linux Needs Open Multimedia on the Web
The state of web multimedia on Linux is pitiful. Proprietary codecs, plug-ins and closed standards are helping to keep Linux a second rate citizen. What Linux needs is not another proprietary framework like Moonlight, but more open standards. Can Google help by making YouTube a Theora-fest?
- linux-mag.com, August 20, 2009 | BLOG: Comparing Force.com, Google Apps Engine and Amazon WS
These are often referred to as the primary vendors in cloud computing today. Yet, the differences between these cloud offerings are broad.
- Blogspot, August 12, 2009 | Cloud Security Panel: Is cloud computing more or less secure than on-premises IT?
Excerpts from panelists at The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto discuss the challenges of security in cloud computing.
- ZD Net, August 12, 2009 | Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books
On Thursday, Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, plans to announce that by the end of the year it will sell digital books only in the ePub format, an open standard created by a group including publishers like Random House and HarperCollins.
- NY Times, August 12, 2009 | Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an application that understands XML, or to enable another application or service to create a rich document in XML so that the word-processing application can open it as if it was one of its own documents."
- ZD Net, August 7, 2009 | WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing Use Cases (v1.0)
The Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group released version 1.0 of the Cloud Computing Use Cases white paper.
- Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group, August 5, 2009 | Energy software startups set to fight off Google, Microsoft
With a number of traditional IT powerhouses—including Google, Microsoft, and Cisco —entering the field of energy management, it's tempting to view them as pushing a lot of the entrenched companies aside. Instead, because of the way that the energy market is structured, these newer entrants may find themselves relying on some of the services of the startups that occupy the energy management space.
- ars technica, August 4, 2009 | Windows losing out to Web-centric development?
Google's Chrome operating system isn't the only thing threatening Windows these days. In a recent New York Times story, VMware CEO Paul Maritz highlighted how dynamic Web frameworks and languages are fundamentally shifting our understanding of the operating system. He said, "If you are in Ruby on Rails, you have to work really hard to tell what the operating system is, it is so far removed."
- CNet news, August 4, 2009 | Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases.
- Dr. Dobb's Journal, August 3, 2009 | GSA Outlines U.S. Government's Cloud Computing Requirements
A newly issued RFQ details what's expected from cloud computing vendors in terms of security, SLAs, geographic location, and data ownership.
- InformationWeek, August 3, 2009 | | July 2009 | WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing Use Cases (final draft)
An open collaborative group released this under a Creative Commons license. Read and discuss on the Cloud Computing Use Case discussion group. Here is the PDF.
- Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group on Scribd.com, July 31, 2009 | Brokering Cloud Computing as a Commodity
I seem to keep coming back to the same question when discussing Cloud Computing. Can cloud computing be treated as a commodity that could be brokered and or exchanged? ...
- Linux.sys-con.com, July 29, 2009 | Cloud Providers Preach Open Standards
Everyone agrees that open standards are good, but many offer different paths to the goal.
- internetnews.com, July 20, 2009 | Major Standards Development Organizations Collaborate to Further Adoption of Cloud Standards
At its Cloud Standards Summit here this week, OMG(TM) today announced a collaboration with leading technology Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) to coordinate and communicate standards for Cloud computing and storage.
- redOrbit, July 13, 2009 | GE brings smart grids to life as appliances gain support
GE, which supplies up to a third of the appliances sold in the US, has signed a deal with Tendril, which provides software for smart grid applications. GE appliances will soon play nicely with the smart grid.
- ars technica, July 9, 2009 | The smart push for health exchange standards
Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) they run are a shining example of what's possible from health IT.
- smartplanet.com, July 9, 2009 | Eurocrats face proprietary FUD attack
A European Commission effort to move the continent toward open standards is being threatened by Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) from a group favoring proprietary solutions.
- ZD Net, July 9, 2009 | Intoducing the Googe Chrome OS
Google officially announces the new Chrome OS for the PC.
- Google's blog, July 7, 2009 | Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate
The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort. Ars takes a close look at the HTML 5 codec controversy and examines the relative strengths and weaknesses of H.264 and Ogg Theora.
- ars technica, July 5, 2009 | | June 2009 | UN and EU urges legislators to support open source and open standards
Times of economic crisis are an opportunity to review our societal models and take advantage of the latest innovation to foster the world economy. This article is an opportunity to remind that EU officials and United Nations share the same vision on the need to favor open source and open standard to foster economic growth and international collaboration.
- Zea Partners, June 19, 2009 | HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
- Computer World, June 16, 2009 | An Open Platform for Electric Car-Charging Networks?
Some players in the market envision a Java-like platform to accelerate deployment and foster innovation
- Business Week, June 15, 2009 | Microsoft's IE unbundling treated with skepticism
MICROSOFT'S ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that it will unbundle Internet Exploder (IE) from Windows 7 in Europe has been met with widespread skepticism.
- The Inquirer, June 12, 2009 | Different cloud computing standards a huge challenge
The lack of agreement on standards may put the best technology bet to cut costs at the disposal of Indian companies in these tough times — cloud computing — under the cloud.
- The Economic Times, June 4, 2009 | | May 2009 | Unlocking the cloud
Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms
- The Economist, May 28, 2009 | Google Says HTML 5 Tools Leave Microsoft In the Dust
Google led off its Google I/O 2009 developer conference in San Francisco by declaring "the Web has won" -- that is, the Internet and Web browsers, not a computer's operating system, are the future of application development.
- ChennelWeb, May 28, 2009 | Vancouver endorses open standards
THE CITY COUNCIL of Vancouver in (once-) British Columbia has embraced open standards to make its data more widely accessible and says it will consider open source software on equal footing with proprietary software products when making public acquisitions.
- The Inquirer, May 26, 2009 | City of Vancouver, Canada adopts open standards
Vancouver, Canada's third-largest city, has adopted a policy of "open standards, interfaces and formats" for all public data.
- Slashdot.org, May 24, 2009 | | April 2009 | DMTF to Develop Standards for Managing a Cloud Computing Environment
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced that it has formed a group dedicated to addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing. The “Open Cloud Standards Incubator” will work to develop a set of informational specifications for cloud resource management.
- businesswire.com, April 27, 2009 | Analysts say Oracle buying Sun is a game-changer
Oracle has announced its intention to acquire Sun in an all-cash transaction worth $US9.50 per share of Sun stock, for a total net value of $US5.6 billion when Sun's debts are factored in.
- SearchStorage, April 21, 2009 | Free Mobile Digital TV in North America gets one step closer
Today the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced that Washington D.C. will be the showcase market for the ATSC-M/H mobile TV standard. ATSC-M/H is a version of the current ATSC digital television standard used in North America that will allow for mobile-formatted digital TV broadcasts to be made in parallel with existing DTV transmissions, which are set to take over for analog transmissions in the USA as of June 12, 2009.
- mobileburn.com, April 20, 2009 | Adobe's Flash: Coming to a TV (and living room) near you
Adobe said Monday that it is taking its Flash software, which is commonly used for Web video, to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
- ZD Net, April 20, 2009 | An Open Virtual Machine Format for Cloud Portability
Over the last couple days I've been doing some research into the various options for cloud centric virtual machine packaging formats & standards. I have come to a somewhat obvious conclusion; There is really only one option -- the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF).
- Cloud Interoperability Magazine, April 15, 2009 | Sun plugs open standard into VirtualBox upgrade
Sun on Wednesday updated its VirtualBox virtualisation software to version 2.2, adding features such as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard.
- ZD Net, April 8, 2009 | Is the Open Cloud Manifesto led by IBM important?
OPINION: Why does an enterprise customer care if the cloud manifesto mandates open standards for providers of cloud services?
- Gerson Lehrman Group, April 5, 2009 | Clashing over cloud standards
OPINION: There's a war brewing in the virtual skies. And it's about standards.
- Computer World, April 1, 2009 | | March 2009 | Is the Open Cloud Manifesto an Open Book?
Is the Open Cloud Manifesto -- a declaration designed to guarantee the interoperability of cloud-hosted software offerings -- a preventive remedy against vendor lock-in? Or is it a thinly veiled marketing ploy designed to pit major players against each other as the cloud wars escalate?
- Linux Insider, March 30, 2009 | OASIS Members Approve Open Standard for Accessing Unstructured Information
OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
- XMLjournal, March 19, 2009 | Research and Markets: The Advent of VoiceXML, the Open Standard for IVR and Next-Generation IVR Platforms, Is Helping Businesses to Re-Evaluate the Strategic Value of IVR in Enterprises
The IVR Decision Matrix report explores the competitive dynamics within the IVR market and helps businesses select a vendor based on its technology strength, reputation among customers, and impact in the market. Datamonitor provides a complete view of vendor capabilities and advises on those you should explore, consider and, most importantly, shortlist.
- TMCnews, March 4, 2009 | Smart Grid May Present New Opportunities for Broadband
Revamping the nation’s energy grid for the twenty-first century could increase demand for a nationwide broadband network, said industry experts and regulators. But at a Tuesday hearing by the Senate Committee on Energy and National Resources, a group of experts from both government, standards-setting bodies and industry told senators that all stakeholders must first do a better job of working together to digitize electricity transmission and delivery systems.
- broadbandcensus.com, March 3, 2009 | Smart Grid Stimulus Money Can Be Released Before Standards
Federal regulators said Tuesday that economic stimulus money for "smart grid" energy technology could be released before a comprehensive "road map" of grid standards is completed...
- easybourse.com, March 3, 2009 | Open standards aid intracompany collaboration
OPINION: I spent some time with a large software company last week. In the course of our conversation, it became clear that while open standards are great for facilitating cooperation between companies, open standards can also serve another purpose entirely: improving cooperation within a single company.
- cnet news, March 2, 2009 | | February 2009 | Open Document Standards
Dueling XML-Based Standards Aim To Replace Proprietary Office File Formats
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