Overheard: The nice thing about standards
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum Andrew Tanenbaum is best known as the author of Minix, an open source OS with a user interface...
View ArticleOverheard: Future of clouds remain hazy without standards
It is clear that without standards of one kind or another (de-facto or from a recognised body), there won’t be a market, and without a market, the cloud is unlikely to thrive. The competition isn’t as...
View ArticleOverheard talking about e-prescribing
As with any business-to-business supply chain, if you administer electronic data interchange without standards, it doesn’t work. Ted Kremer, as quoted in Lack of health information exchange standards...
View ArticleOverheard talking about MultiSpeak
MultiSpeak is a schema that establishes a set of standard interface specifications and defines data entities and their attributes. For example, the “Customer” entity has 14 attributes, including:...
View ArticleOverheard talking about non-governmental organizations
ISO is a non-governmental organization. As such, its standards are voluntary, but many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structures of their countries, and ISO standards have found...
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