Interoperability

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Interoperability

• Oliver R. Bell
• Regional Technology Officer
• Microsoft Asia Pacific

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Interoperability
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Why do we care?

• A market necessity for IT vendors
• Heterogeneity and ICT Convergence are Market
  Realities
• Customers want choice among innovative solutions
  
• Industry should focus on real customer needs
• Interoperability concerns vary from scenario to
  scenario
• Consumers
• Enterprise Customers
• Governments

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What is interoperability?Connecting People,
Data, and Diverse Systems
Connecting
OperationalWorkflows Processes Policies
Semantic InformationDB/Files Metadata
TechnicalApplications Infrastructure
Optimizing performance within and among
organizations
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How has interoperability evolved?
Interoperability Circa. 1980
Solutions
Solutions
Solutions
Solutions
Applications
Applications
Applications
Applications
OS
OS
OS
OS
Computers
Computers
Computers
Computers
Processors
Processors
Processors
Processors
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
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How has interoperability evolved?
Interoperability Today
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How has interoperability evolved? Waves of
Interoperability
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How does Microsoft support its customers?
Community
Access
Products
Standards
Participate in standards bodies and support
standards in products to foster interop
Make MS technology assets available to others
Deliberate delivery of interoperability in
Microsoft products and technologies
Listen to, and work with customers, partners, and
competitors to build bridges and coexist
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How does Microsoft support its customers?
Community
Access
Products
Standards

• Executive Customer Council
• Vendor Alliance
• SugarCRM, JBoss, XenSource, Novell
• Microsofts Open Source Lab and Port 25
• CodePlex, Sourceforge and Open Source Portals

Participate in standards bodies and support
standards in products to foster interop
Make MS technology assets available to others
Deliberate delivery of interoperability in
Microsoft products and technologies
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How does Microsoft support its customers?
Community
Access
Products
Standards

• IP Licensing
• Translation

• Executive Customer Council
• Vendor Alliance
• SugarCRM, JBoss, XenSource, Novell
• Microsofts Open Source Lab and Port 25
• CodePlex, Sourceforge and Open Source Portals

Participate in standards bodies and support
standards in products to foster interop
Deliberate delivery of interoperability in
Microsoft products and technologies
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How does Microsoft support its customers?
Community
Access
Products
Standards

• Open XML currently moving through ISO
• Active Participation in Standards Setting
  Organizations
• Leading Contributorof Web Service Technologies

• Executive Customer Council
• Vendor Alliance
• SugarCRM, JBoss, XenSource, Novell
• Microsofts Open Source Lab and Port 25
• CodePlex, Sourceforge and Open Source Portals

• IP Licensing
• Translation

Deliberate delivery of interoperability in
Microsoft products and technologies
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Interoperability

• Questions?