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don't askNow Playing: 'Disgusting Dainties' Nothing left to chance or imagination on laundry day. (Criminal)
Topic: Integroty
I Call BULL$#!@
This makes me want to just puke. Duplicitous, half-baked, know-nothings and sycophants trying to "frame the discussion" when everybody else finished that topic months and years ago.
Absolutely nauseating.
Interoperability an enterprise reality, claims Microsoft
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/113655/interoperability-an-enterprise-reality-claims-microsoft.htmlPosted by Nicole Kobie in Seattle at 1:43PM, Monday 21st May 2007 Convergence, heterogeneous systems and security hurdles mean even competing IT firms must work together to keep their programs working.
IT companies must work together to develop interoperable systems in the face of convergence and security burdens, according to innovation leaders at Microsoft.
Speaking at a press conference at the company's US campus in Redmond, representatives said that enterprise needs IT firms to collaborate to ensure interoperability (Why? Because interoperability isn't something Microsoft does with the outside world even though they DID tell you their file systems were all "interoperable". Don't you remember that?) trends convergence, heterogeneous IT systems, virtualisation, public sector projects and security needs have all made interoperability and collaboration necessary to survive ("...now. It wasn't quite like this last year when we had control.").
"It wasn't that long ago that 'interoperability' and 'heterogeneous' were words you'd never hear from someone at Microsoft (excuse me ladies and gentlemen but how long have I, your host with the most, been telling you that...? Congratulations. Microsoft has finally seen fit to tell you numbskulls the dirty truth.)," said group product manager Margaret Dawson. "It's the reality for enterprise now."
("Reality"? No $#!@? Is that right? Interoperability is a "reality" that they haven't been working on at Microsoft? Haven't been considering the impact in IT providers partnered with Microsoft? What happened to the vaunted 'interoperability is in the file' strategy? Didn't work, did it? What a transparent bunch of hoots MSFT are now. Laugh out loud foolish and your clients will have to pick up the tab to enable you to do it, is that right? Let's all share the burden. LOL Beans and weinies in a bubbling pot.)
The need for interoperability has pushed (THERE's the magic words. Nobody pushed them to do anything about it before. "Why do you make me screw up like this? It's not fair... waaahhhh.") Microsoft to partner with companies they also compete with - something Dawson termed "co-opatition". (Some of us call it copulation but it all depends on who's definition you use.)
Recently, the software giant announced it was working with competitor OpenOffice, to develop tools to increase interoperability between the two document formats. (Hmmm. Finally getting the message I see.)
The increasing convergence of software, hardware and telecommunication systems means applications, devices and processes must be compatible. "You can't have that [convergence] unless different companies work together (or Microsoft agrees to work with other companies)," said Tom Robertson, the general manager for standards at Microsoft.
In addition, enterprises are shifting to heterogeneous IT systems, where they pick and mix solutions from a variety of vendors (arbitrary) to find the right price or tool for their own specific needs. In turn, vendors need to ensure their products work with their partners and competitors alike, or risk being frozen out of enterprise contracts.
(Poor BABIES! You mean all you software developers didn't know the sandbags MSFT was putting up around the moat were not to keep folks out but to keep you IN? Say it ain't so!)
Virtualisation, another top IT trend, will also bring challenges (as soon as we can catch up). As programs from different vendors are being used on the same hardware, companies must ensure interoperability, Robertson said.
Governments and the public sector bring another twist (you mean like a Texas Titty-Twister?) to interoperability, as IT systems increasingly feature in policy. For example, Robertson said that as healthcare records in Europe are digitised, they must be accessible in any country, regardless of the operation system or application being used. IT Solutions will need to be able to translate and read data from competing systems (or employ a system that provides for virtualization and arbitration).
Speaking about improvements to security in Microsoft products, principle security program manager Michael Howard said that tightening controls and defences in operating systems will have repercussions for externally developed applications.
"All these defences we have in place are going to affect other applications, so we need to work together," Howard said.
Kum buy ya my Lord Kum buy ya. Somebody's getting their butt kicked, Lord. Kum buy ya...
If you nitwits could come up with a way of virtualizing all your applications and arbitrating the differences between them... and that's with ALL... not just Microsoft applications, you might actually gain some respect from your industry.
As it is, your management has lead you to the point where you will have to work three times as hard as anybody else to come up with something half as useful.
Hoooey. That's the most polite term I can come up with for this bunch of past time nose rubbers. And for those of you who don't read big words very often like "interoperablility" why don't you try this one for starters:
duplicitous adj. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
