Interoperability
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Telepresence--time to work together
Insight perspective Tired of your comms kit not working well with others? An analyst says it's time to push for compatibility in the telepresence space.
Tags: LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Standards, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Quocirca, Sales, Interoperability, phone
Mobile interoperability to remain pipe dream
News Phone makers are not likely to give developers ability to port apps to competing platforms, as ability to offer exclusive apps remains differentiating factor.
Tags: Open source, Development/design, Ovum, Mobile, Developer, operating system, Interoperability, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Platform, phone
Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud
News correction Most businesses will deploy mix of open source and proprietary software on cloud platform due to complexity of business apps, says Red Hat executive.
Tags: Open source, Cloud computing, Cloud, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, International Data Corp., Developer, Interoperability, Cloud computing, PaaS
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News Seven technology companies have developed a specification that the group hopes will improve encryption-key management interoperability.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business ethics, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Security, Specification, Seagate Technology LLC, Encryption, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage
Microsoft backs document-format test tool
News The online tool is intended to ensure that different vendors' implementations of OOXML produce compatible results.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Apache Software Foundation, OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, software
Excel criticized over ODF interoperability
News Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its ODF implementation within Office 2007 SP2, but says it is an issue inherent with the standard.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Standards, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Interoperability, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News Kantara Initiative, which aims to harmonize ID management technologies and standards, gets backing of companies such as BT, CA, Intel, Novell, Oracle, PayPal and Sun.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Computer Associates International Inc., PayPal, Intel Corp., British Telecommunications, Identity, Privacy, Identity Theft, Interoperability
Microsoft trying to live up to interoperability pledge
News Company announces incremental steps, improving documentation and collaborating with others to create more translators to convert Office files into other formats.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Microsoft Office, XML, Open source, Microsoft Corp., software company, Interoperability, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
News The U.K. government body that oversees schools' IT has welcomed Microsoft's interoperability intentions, but some members of the open source community say the software giant is trying to lock schools into licenses.
Tags: Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., School, Open Source, operating system, Interoperability, public sector, Microsoft Office 2007, volume-license, software
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications
Red Hat warns of cloud 'lock-in'
News Vendors such as Microsoft are attempting to take customers 'back to the '80s' by locking them into proprietary cloud services, according to open source vendor Red Hat.
Tags: Cloud computing, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Sister Site, SDK, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, PHP
ITU: Standardization critical for global industry
News Technology heads from major companies call for "overhaul" of ICT standardization and offer recommendations to better address needs of industry.
Tags: Network standards/protocols, Standards, Standardization, climate change, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., British Telecommunications, Telecommunications, Information And Communication Technology, Standards
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualization
News It is now possible to deploy supported virtualization environments that combine Red Hat Linux with Microsoft Windows Server, the two companies have announced.
Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
M'sian broadband wars heat up
Blogs Consumer broadband service in Malaysia has been around for almost 10 years now, but it wasn't until 2005/2006 that the s...
