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BSI To Give OOXML Vote Results
Blog The BSI is due to send me a press release within an hour: please watch ZDNet UK for news of the vote. The British Standards Institute is today to give the result of its vote regarding whether the UK will approve fast track ISO certification for...
[September 3, 2007, 12:35]
BSI Silent On OOXML Vote Result
News The British Standards Institution (BSI) did say in a statement, however, that it had "identified a number of technical issues in the document which need to be addressed before the UK can approve. However, BSI did not confirm or deny whether this...
[September 4, 2007, 10:13]
News Burst: BSI Smiles On Your Security
News Smile, the Co-operative Bank's online banking operation, met all the criteria laid down in BSI's BS7799 standard for information security management -- the transmission of private and financial details across the Internet.
[February 1, 2000, 10:34]
BSI Security Code Prompts Criticism About Key Escrow
News The BSI's Information Security Management (BS 7799), launched yesterday, is the fruit of labours started by the DTI and a group of blue-chip British companies in 1995. A BSI representative says: "Security has become an issue in the news over the...
[July 21, 1999, 14:39]
Amlin Adheres To BSI PAS56 Business Continuity Standard With Symantec Consulting
White Papers Working closely with VERITAS Consulting (Symantec), the company has implemented a business continuity program and situation (crisis) capability that meets the British Standards Institute (BSI) PAS56 - the framework for best practice business...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Ukuug Quit BSI Committee Themselves Prior To OOXML Vote
Talkback I seems that the ukuug quit the relevant BSI committee a few months before the OOXML vote. We are very disappointed that BSI has chosen to take this decision against the advice of its technical committee.
[May 2, 2008, 14:18]
BSI And Sun Microsystems Reduce IT Costs And Increase Performance For Premium TV
White Papers Business Systems International (BSI) - a Sun Microsystems DataCenter Accredited Partner - completed a major project to refresh PTV's business-critical web serving and database environments, using the very latest Sun Fire V890 servers with...
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
BSI To Give OOXML Vote Results
Blog Comment It is not only the Open Source Community which has raised criticism of Microsoft's behaviour, the improper fast tracking, the lack of a rigorous scrutiny taken together with the known deficiencies of and drawbacks to OOXXML as an ISO standard at...
[September 3, 2007, 17:01]
BSI Issues Web-design Guidelines
News The British Standards Institution (BSI) has issued new guidelines for Web designers in a bid to make Web sites easier for disabled people to use. The move follows an investigation by the Disability Rights
[March 14, 2006, 9:55]
BSI Case Study On The Benefits Of BS 15000 Registration
White Papers The Datalect Group has been providing services within the I.T.industry, providing hardware maintenance, software support, managed and professional services. Datalect has a significant number of large partners organisations to which it delivers...
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
Ocado Enhances The Retail Experience With BSI And Sun
White Papers Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers' shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience. As a greenfield site, Ocado needed a technical infrastructure to...
[March 24, 2008, 23:00]
What Proof, What Right
Talkback [quote]Anyway, perhaps we should let the High Court decide, rather than taking your, or the BSI's, word for it? If they were a participant in the BSI committee they might have some standing on what BSI states on therecommendations made by the...
[May 22, 2008, 10:43]
Changing The Subject Again?
Talkback At the risk of repeating myself - This is about the BSI, not UKUUG. If BSI has claimed to follow the recommendation in their official communications I would have little doubt on that. Anyway, perhaps we should let the High Court decide, rather than...
[May 22, 2008, 10:43]
Is This A 'Chewbacca Defence' Or Something?
Talkback Um, this 'OOXML expert' is the chair of the BSI committee that reversed the BSI's decision, isn't he? I don't suppose this has anything to do with the action against the BSI in the High Court: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39408917...
[May 22, 2008, 10:42]
For More Balance
Talkback BSI said: IST/41 reached a consensus decision and BSI voted in accordance with the committee’s recommendation.http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Standards-and-Publications/Newsletters--press/FAQs-for-journalists/OOXML-standardization/OOXML-standardization/
[May 2, 2008, 14:26]
World Expert On Best Practice Chooses HP Holistic Management Solution
White Papers Headquartered in London, the BSI Group is a leading provider of professional services to organisations worldwide. BSI provides IT support for 1,500 staff in many offices around the UK. IT management had previously been done remotely but when BSI...
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
UK May Make Last-minute U-turn On OOXML
News If the British Standards Institution (BSI) registers a vote in favour, Office Open XML (OOXML) would pass one of two criteria to becoming a standard, but fail the other. A technical group formed to make a recommendation to the BSI's policy panel...
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
Denmark Changes OOXML Vote To 'yes'
News According to a Friday statement on the website of Danish Standards (the Danish equivalent of the British Standards Institution, or BSI), the country's previous vote of "disapproval with comments" on the original draft of the OOXML standard has now...
[March 28, 2008, 14:47]
How Tripwire Supports Standards Set By The BS7799 / ISO17799
White Papers In Information Security, the British Standards Institute (www.bsi.co.uk) has been working to formalize information security management. The BSI may be best known for the ISO9001 standard, which improved manufacturing processes.
[January 13, 2005, 23:00]
Quitting And Complaining
Talkback They could have had a vote in the official recommendation on Office Open XML to BSI but choose to leave. If BSI has claimed to follow the recommendation in their official communications I would have little doubt on that.
[May 22, 2008, 11:37]
