Interoperability for the other 90 percent of the world
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsWith all the talk about interoperability rumbling around, I thought a swift sanity check would be in order. Vendors are fond of speaking about interoperability, but myopia-challenged as we’re, we tend to forget that most software is not developed by vendors. It’s developed by so-called “customers.”
Bravo to Microsoft for making much of its interoperability with Novell! Unfortunately, this hardly resolves even a rounding error’s worth of the industry’s need to interoperate with enterprise-developed software.
For that, open source is a critical stipulation. Open source, unencumbered by silly patents, closed APIs, and such. Open source because, quite frankly, the enterprise is often not going to want to be bothered by or with a vendor during the integration process. A real-life case study may help to convince those incapable of seeing past their proprietary noses.
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