A mus tread. Carol Sliwa of ComputerWorld intervies Clark Kelso, California CIO. ODF is the main issue, with clark casting all his answers in the context of business decisions. Carol o fcourse is asking the best questions of any journalist alive.
Keep in mind that ComputerWorld and the Boston globe filed for the Freedom of Information Act to be invoked in Massachusetts. They got access to all the eMail, documnetation, and conferencing notes concerning ODF and Microsoft. Carol's interview with Louis Gutierrez last week was filled with the same hard questions Clark Kelso fielded so deftly.
The "committee" Clark Kelso has set up to look at these issues is headed by Bill Welty, the CIO of the California Air Resources Board. Bill is a long time opensource - Linux guy, but will be the firs tto admit that Microsoft is the only vendor providing a means of getting everything inot XML. And that's the heart of any SOA strategy, "First, get everything into XML".
With a 500 million MSOffice desktop bound business process headstart, Microsoft has the extreme advantage in this much needed migration to XML.
They now have their own proprietary application and platform bound version of XML; MOOXML (Microsoft OfficeOpenXML) heading for international standardization at ISO.
They now have their XML Hub in place; the Exchange4/SharePoint Hub. This is also an essential part of any SOA strategy. You've got to have an XML Hub where the XML information streams and service connection to legacy black box systems can be piped into, managed and resolved. The XML must also provide an end user interface to these information flows. One that converges and integrates information, documents, data, and workflows into an easy to manage and participate in interface. The E/S Hub excells at this because it covers the fundamentals of eMail, messaging, portal, calendar, scheduling, contact and project management, document resources, CMS, workgroup and workflow management, XML forms, data schemas, data binding and extraction. The "portal" element provides vertical market developers with an easy means for provisioning highly productive business processes designed to replace those bound to MSOffice desktops.
Micrsoft is ready to play XML and SOA. And do so without giving up their control of the documents or API. The cornerstone of the MS XML STack is that every applicaiton on the desktop, server, device or Web shares three common factors:
MOOXML (Microsoft OfficeOpenXML)
.NET 3.0 Components, Libraries and Data Schemas
XAML - the XML presentation layer (GUI)
So, where are the ODF Hubs? And will those Hubs have the same level o integration to the MSOffice desktop as the MS XML Hub enjoys?
We’re trying to view it as a straight business decision. What are the costs associated with one approach over another? Does it serve all of our business needs? If it doesn’t serve a business need, how do we satisfy that business need? We’re trying to view this just as a plain-vanilla, nonpartisan, nonideological issue.
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Keep in mind that ComputerWorld and the Boston globe filed for the Freedom of Information Act to be invoked in Massachusetts. They got access to all the eMail, documnetation, and conferencing notes concerning ODF and Microsoft. Carol's interview with Louis Gutierrez last week was filled with the same hard questions Clark Kelso fielded so deftly.
The "committee" Clark Kelso has set up to look at these issues is headed by Bill Welty, the CIO of the California Air Resources Board. Bill is a long time opensource - Linux guy, but will be the firs tto admit that Microsoft is the only vendor providing a means of getting everything inot XML. And that's the heart of any SOA strategy, "First, get everything into XML".
With a 500 million MSOffice desktop bound business process headstart, Microsoft has the extreme advantage in this much needed migration to XML.
They now have their own proprietary application and platform bound version of XML; MOOXML (Microsoft OfficeOpenXML) heading for international standardization at ISO.
They now have their XML Hub in place; the Exchange4/SharePoint Hub. This is also an essential part of any SOA strategy. You've got to have an XML Hub where the XML information streams and service connection to legacy black box systems can be piped into, managed and resolved. The XML must also provide an end user interface to these information flows. One that converges and integrates information, documents, data, and workflows into an easy to manage and participate in interface. The E/S Hub excells at this because it covers the fundamentals of eMail, messaging, portal, calendar, scheduling, contact and project management, document resources, CMS, workgroup and workflow management, XML forms, data schemas, data binding and extraction. The "portal" element provides vertical market developers with an easy means for provisioning highly productive business processes designed to replace those bound to MSOffice desktops.
Micrsoft is ready to play XML and SOA. And do so without giving up their control of the documents or API. The cornerstone of the MS XML STack is that every applicaiton on the desktop, server, device or Web shares three common factors:
- MOOXML (Microsoft OfficeOpenXML)
- .NET 3.0 Components, Libraries and Data Schemas
- XAML - the XML presentation layer (GUI)
So, where are the ODF Hubs? And will those Hubs have the same level o integration to the MSOffice desktop as the MS XML Hub enjoys?~ge~