May 2006 - Posts

24 May 2006
Performance Matters To Customers
*****Updated From Original Posting***** Swashbuckler (who makes frequent, cogent arguments in the comments on my blog) made a comment on my last posting which I think is a good point of discussion. My understanding is that the performance issue traces Read More...
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24 May 2006
Formats Performance Differential
I was recently pointed to an blog posting by George Ou over at ZDNet. Performance matters. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=196 Read More...
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22 May 2006
Interesting MS Bloggers In Europe
I'd like to highlight three really bright Microsoft guys who live over in Europe. They are deeply invovled with technology and our customers and have a wealth of industry experience. All three of them are active bloggers and worth the read: Jonathan Murray Read More...
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19 May 2006
Open Leads To Consulting
Interesting piece about the relationship between "open" and consulting revenues. I have long been banging the drum that those businesses with primary revenue streams attached to consulting practices have a strong incentive to push open source solutions. Read More...
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18 May 2006
Open XML Spec - Draft 1.3 Released
Brian Jones has posted the news that Draft 1.3 of the Open XML format spec has been posted. He has a solid blog entry on the news and rather than paraphrase it, I just copied it over here. - Jason ***** From Brian Jones' Blog ***** Draft 1.3 of the Ecma Read More...
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17 May 2006
XML Formats Technical Interest
For those of you with interest in the tech side of the XML-based file format discussion, I'd recommend you check out Brian Jones' blog . Here is a great entry on performance issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/05/16/599096.aspx Read More...
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16 May 2006
Commercial Intent
A point I have made often in my blog over the past year and a half is about the commercial implications of "open" solutions. The fact is, the big money and human resources being applied to projects such as the ODF specification process and/or large OSS Read More...
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15 May 2006
Customer Demand
I know that Tim Bray has recently suggested that I am in la la land and spewing various forms of manure on my blog and in the press. I generally assume that my wife is the only one that would make such a suggestion – but hey I’ve been known to be wrong Read More...
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14 May 2006
Open Format Ecosystems
Part 2 in the series: Ecosystems Based On Open Formats Another important issue that keeps surfacing in the standard-based format discussion is how the availability of open data formats (Open XML or OpenDocument) enables the growth of an ecosystem of software Read More...
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11 May 2006
Interesting Article
A good editorial from the San Jose Mercury News. San Jose Mercury News Too much tech regulation would hinder services of IT specialists By Alan Weinberger May 10, 2006 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/14543676.htm Read More...
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10 May 2006
Interoperability - Four Points
Part 1 in the series: Interoperability Let's start with the real issue at hand - interoperability. Our customers care about interoperability. In fact, they rank it right up there with security and reliability when they consider what is most important Read More...
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10 May 2006
Level set and reentry to the blogosphere
For the past four weeks I have been attending to my work helping Microsoft rethink its approach to software standards. A great deal of that work involves addressing internal issues as to how we think about interoperability and the role that standards Read More...
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