interoperability

New in the Ibuildings blog today, there's a post from Ivo Jansch talking about using a pluggable architecture to help make your applications more robust and simpler to maintain.

One key to this is the introduction of data sourcing.

Computing.co.uk: "Technology companies that want to sell software in Europe, will find they are soon subject to new rules governing the interoperability of their products."

Within the last two months, Microsoft has announced a command-line tool for PHP to deploy applications on Windows Azure, OData interoperability with PHP and guidance for using PHP with the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse plug-in.

IDABC: "Everyone interested in interoperability within the context of public service delivery is cordially invited to send suggestions aiming at contributing to the implementation of the European Interoperability Strategy."

The telecom industry has joined the effort to forge interoperability among cloud providers by forming a consortium backed by some key cloud providers, including Microsoft and IBM.

Linux Blog Safari: ""HAHAHA!" was blogger Robert Pogson's reaction. The Linux blogosphere is still echoing with similar responses."

Tux Deluxe: "Have I mentioned how much I hate Microsoft Excel? I quake in fear whenever I see an Excel interoperability bug logged against Samba.

That application is perverse in the things it will do to a remote file server."

Standards Blog: "Looking at the first question: why is there no reference to future versions of OOXML/IS 29500?

Does this indicate that Microsoft intends to abandon its own XML formats?"

Netstat -vat: "Since Mono benefits from the Microsoft/Novell interoperability agreement, some in the Linux community have concerns about the legal status of mono when it comes to redistribution.

Among those that have a concern is Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields."

blog.angulosolido.pt: "Overunderdo: To achieve good things to the extent that they can be loudly announced but to a slightly lesser extent than would actually make them useful."