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August 2004 - Posts

Update on WS-Eventing

Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:55 AM by Dave Welsh
What's cool for Industry Standards groups (retail, finance, manufacturing, apparel, utility services, ...), who typically work in their own process domains and with their own communities, is that they are all going to be on a common technical foundation Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part I of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:55 PM by Dave Welsh
The blurring of distinctions between Open Source Software and Open Standards – be it inadvertent or intentional – is confusing a lot of people and can be deceptive. The difference is something architects and decision makers need to be sensitive about Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part II of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:53 PM by Dave Welsh
The term “Open Source Software” ( OSS ) is used in a variety of contexts to refer to any (or a combination) of four (4) interrelated concepts: an OSS development model, OSS philosophies, OSS licensing regimes, and OSS business models. The four concepts Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part III of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:52 PM by Dave Welsh
Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source Software is essential, as they each are tailored towards different ends. The fundamental purpose of a standard is to promote interoperability. The philosophical objective of OSS is to ensure that software Read More...
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Weekly Recap - Aug 28'04

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:29 PM by Dave Welsh
It's been a busy week, with little time to blog as much as I wished; so I must be getting used to blogging. I thought I'd just catch up right now with an end of the week recap. Coming back our blogging service here, I've found out a bit more about how Read More...
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Another Web Service spec comes together (MTOM)

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:18 PM by Dave Welsh
More new Web Service work is making its way through the standards process, and this time it’s MTOM at W3C. MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) is a spec for attaching large binary data to a SOAP message, while still retaining the SOAP processing Read More...
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Quick search for Outlook - I can see again

Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 1:16 PM by Dave Welsh
Don't know about you, but I get way too many emails every day. I usually go blind when I need to go back a few days or weeks to to dig out a particular message or certain file I need. Microsoft's got LookOut Ver 1.2 available for download and it's really Read More...
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Week 1 - Grins & Giggles

Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:59 AM by Dave Welsh
It's been about a week since I started blogging, and it's really cool to see the reactions I've gotten offline from people. I'm a little surprised at how far and how fast a blog can spread. Just yesterday I had lunch with a buddy who I ski with (who I Read More...
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Business Physics 101

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:25 PM by Dave Welsh
Perhaps the title should be ‘business architecture 101’, with a subtitle of ‘business architecture is not the same as technical architecture’; but some people seem to not see the difference between the two. The laws of nature which determine the success Read More...
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A Quicker Way to get Better Standards?

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:16 PM by Dave Welsh
Customers always tell us they want open standards that work, yesterday. With last weeks news about WS-Addressing going in to the W3C, most of the public might not realize they are actually watching the end of an exhaustive standards development process Read More...
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The Quality of Standards (or what can you expect from standards?)

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 8:25 PM by Dave Welsh
This is the first of a short series of articles on the topic of standards. This article is a general overview of how the standards development world really operates today, with inside information on some of the big issues that end users (architects and Read More...
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Shoot, Ready, Aim !

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 1:19 PM by Dave Welsh
Isn't this usually the way all new things begin? Jump in and sink or swim.Well blogging is a new experiment for me. Basically here at Microsoft I'm working more inside (than outside) Redmond within the Architectural Strategy team on the Developer and Read More...
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