Diverse technology usage could cause chaos?
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| Adoption of open source software platforms like Linux is on the rise
| despite the government's refusal to officially endorse the technology
| as other emerging markets have done. However, the government wants to
| make clear in its national E-governance policy that "no compulsory
| open source" does not mean "no unified document standards."
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http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/diverse-technology-usage-could-cause-chaos/285854
http://tinyurl.com/yo88va
Related:
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|[Microsoft:] ...we should take the lead in establishing a common
|approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
|efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
|on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
|not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
|industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
|benefit. We are large enough that this can work.
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
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| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Having source code (write once, run everywhere) and adhering to standards
resolves such issues.
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