Interesting blog on standards

[John Hatton]

See: http://adambosworth.net/2009/10/29/talking-to-dc/

 

Lots to think on… don’t miss the discussion in the comments as well.

 

“Somewhat to my surprise and usually to my pain, I’ve been involved in several successful standards. One was used to exchange data between databases and consumer applications like spreadsheets and Access. It was called ODBC and worked surprisingly well after some initial hiccups. Another was the standard for what today is called AJAX, namely building complex interactive web pages like gmail’s. Perhaps most importantly there was XML. These are the successes. There were also some failures. One that stands in my memory is one called OLE DB which was an attempt to supplant/replace ODBC. One that comes close to being a failure was/is the XML Schema specification. From all these efforts, there were a few lessons learned and it is these that I shared with DC this Thursday. What are they?”

 

 

John Hatton

SIL PNG, Palaso, & SIL International Software Development

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