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WLAN standards battle begins again
News Interoperability between radio access points used to transmit signals throughout offices and a new breed of WLAN switches that centrally control these switches has been an issue for some time. Last week, start-ups Aruba Wireless Networks and...
[April 11, 2005, 9:55]
Faster Wi-Fi hits another hurdle
News Farpoint recently published a study based on tests of Draft 1.0 products that found the performance and interoperability claims of chip vendors didn't stack up. Partner solutions based on our Intensi-fi products will continue to offer multivendor...
[May 4, 2006, 10:55]
Down with standards
News Things like OASIS and the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organisation) are not standards organisations. Standards development) has some open process and (the standards) are freely available and implementable.
[April 28, 2004, 16:35]
Microsoft Office Open XML gets US knockback
News We look forward to further discussions on this issue with INCITS as it comes to its final position over the coming six weeks," said Tom Robertson, general manager of interoperability and standards at Microsoft.
[July 17, 2007, 18:39]
Ultrawideband in 2005, but only in America
News Finally, WiMedia will guarantee interoperability through certification. We'll certify interoperability and run logo programmes to help consumer confidence". Ultrawideband has become increasingly controversial within the industry during the past...
[February 19, 2004, 8:45]
Java steps closer to open source
News We're trying to do a delicate balance act where we create a licensing atmosphere as close to open source as we can get, while on the other hand, not violating the expectations of the other half of the world around interoperability and...
[March 17, 2005, 8:40]
Sun may join Web services body
News A Sun representative on Friday said Sun will join the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) as long as WS-I's board accepts IBM's proposal to add two new board members. Julson declined to comment on Microsoft's stance but said Sun wants...
[May 7, 2002, 13:00]
What to expect from VMworld Europe 2008
News Certainly, with various strains of virtual technology being brought together at once, such as desktop, data and operating system virtualisation, there is a need for interoperability and greater management of the virtualisation process as a whole.
[February 25, 2008, 8:42]
Red Hat launches Global Desktop
News Dell also announced on Monday that it would join an established alliance between Novell and Microsoft — which will see the PC and server maker support the alleged interoperability drive — particularly around server virtualisation.
[May 10, 2007, 14:01]
VoIP threatens to outsmart backend
News The lack of interoperability at a technology level and on an operational level have slowed end-to-end deployment of VoIP," said Lisa Pierce, a research fellow for Forrester Research. Morche said that Level 3 has been able to reduce the amount of...
[December 29, 2003, 13:20]
Microsoft pretties Office for business apps
News Microsoft also detailed a toolkit called Lobi (line-of-business interoperability) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, which is designed to simplify the building of transactional business applications with Office and the SharePoint portal server.
[June 13, 2006, 9:40]
yeah..
Talkback If anything this just underlines the important need for the cloud service providers to work better together on a more interoperability format. This has nothing really to do with MS when ya really think about it they acquired another company that...
[October 14, 2009, 0:25]
IBM: Open standards hold key to dynamic e-business
News All this interoperability and heterogeneity is made possible through open standards, which will be incorporated into all IBM solutions being delivered going forward. Businesses are trying to leverage information to get process integration.
[August 16, 2001, 10:36]
Intel calls for e-business standard
News We need to have the interoperability built in from the start. There are 30 designs in process now for Itanium systems, Otellini said, and eight vendors demonstrated prototype Itanium-based systems at the Intel Developer Forum.
[February 17, 2000, 10:02]
Microsoft: Forget BI apps, the future is LOBi
News Microsoft LOBi (line-of-business interoperability) is aimed at the company's Office SharePoint Server. Business people know Outlook and know how to use it.The goal is to help companies amplify the impact of their people: saving time and money...
[June 23, 2006, 12:25]
IBM prepares to unveil new software and services
News Many companies are using Web services standards to improve interoperability between disparate systems. But because many standards, such as those for security and business process automation, are immature, there is often a need for professional...
[April 16, 2004, 16:15]
Software patent limits 'go too far'
News They successfully backed several amendments, including Article 6a, which is designed to prevent patents from interfering with interoperability. The directive was criticised by economists, small-business organisations, software developers and...
[September 26, 2003, 17:50]
Cruel truth surfaces in the OOXML war
Leader Speaking this week, Nicos Tsilas, senior director of interoperability and IP policy at Microsoft, said of IBM: "They have made this a religious and highly political debate. Such would seem to be the case with Microsoft, whose frustration with the...
[January 30, 2008, 17:03]
IBM keeps its distance from Microsoft Web services spec
News Big Blue's exclusion from the WS-Eventing development process is notable because IBM and Microsoft have collaborated on several important Web services specifications and have vowed to ensure that standards provide the interoperability they are...
[January 9, 2004, 9:05]
Sun shines on Web services spec
News The WS-CAF set of specifications seeks to improve interoperability by standardising that capability among different providers, said Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer at Iona. The Sun-led group of companies intends to garner input from other...
[July 28, 2003, 16:24]
