Tag Archives: interop

Microsoft Word add-in for Mediawiki

Posted on December 22, 2010 by oliver

I meant to mention this when we released it back in November but somehow forgot. With the help of Intergen here in Wellington, and with support from a small team of other folks in New Zealand we have released an … Continue reading →

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Interop – some nuts and bolts

Posted on March 4, 2010 by oliver

Following on from a conversation with one of our customers in Australia earlier this morning I thought it might be worthwhile highlighting some of the more collaborative work we have been doing around interop over the last few years.  A … Continue reading →

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eGovernment & SOA: Islands Become Continents

Posted on January 22, 2008 by oliver

The technology world is one of many buzzwords and phrases, one that you hear a lot at the moment is “Service Oriented Architecture” or “SOA” which sounds like a highly technical methodology for systems design, in reality SOA techniques can … Continue reading →

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Further Research From The Berkman Center And St. Gallen University on Interoperability

Posted on November 28, 2007 by oliver

For computing today interoperability is probably as important to the industry as some of the longer running conversations around subjects such as security and reliability. In previous posts I have talked a great deal about some of my own experience … Continue reading →

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Would You Run A Marathon With Your Laces Tied Together?

Posted on November 17, 2007 by oliver

Interoperability this, interoperability that… it is clearly an important conversation in our industry today, and one that spans the whole range of vendors, technology areas and end users. Frequently conversations around interoperability get pulled in the direction of the technology … Continue reading →

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DAISY gives an answer…

Posted on November 14, 2007 by oliver

You might have caught a story in the press today about a translator project that Microsoft and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium are establishing on SourceForge that will provide both some new functionality in Microsoft Office along with … Continue reading →

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Hello [Open Source] World!

Posted on November 12, 2007 by oliver

Views and understanding of every topic evolve over time, one of the more “interesting” elements of working for a company as large as Microsoft is that it can take a long time for change to be recognized in the wider … Continue reading →

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Inconsequential Drama In the ODF Camp

Posted on October 31, 2007 by oliver

Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion in the press and on blogs about some so-called fragmentation in the world of ODF, or the Open Document Format. Much of the press is centered on the evolving … Continue reading →

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Delivering eGovernment…

Posted on October 24, 2007 by oliver

Over the last decade or more I have been involved in a large number of eGovernment projects, some at a national level, some regional and some local government projects. At the Government Technology Summit in Phuket earlier today we were discussing … Continue reading →

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Another Interoperability Lab, This Time In India

Posted on October 16, 2007 by oliver

InfoWorld carried a story earlier this week about the interoperability lab that we have established in India, this adds to the labs that we now have in several countries across the region. The Lab will be focused on both testing … Continue reading →

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