ECPRD ICT WG meeting Microsofts perception

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ECPRD ICT WG meetingMicrosofts perception

• Wilfried Grommen
• GM Business Strategy
• November 2003

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E-parliament requirements
responsibility
innovation
reliability
integrity
Organisation
e-parliament
Products
Content
access
Disclosure
Technology
transparency
Maintenance
Security
Flexibility
Control
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Software drives business value
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Architecture matters

• Web Services
• Service-Oriented Architecture

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From Tightly Coupled
To Service Oriented
You
Your Partner
Programming Language
Programming Language
Database
Database
Agreements
Object Model
Object Model
Schema
Operating System
Operating System
Application
Application
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Web Services Collaboration Secure, Reliable,
Transacted A Reality
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User-focused services
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Integrated InnovationWeb Services Everywhere
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Separate the Topics of Discussion
Industry, IP, economics, policy Product
competition
VS.
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Industry Move To The Middle
IBM Apple SUN SAP Oracle Microsoft RealNetworks
Customer Benefit
Red Hat CollabNet VA Systems Ximian SuSE Sendmail

Business Model
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Shared Source Initiative
Microsoft is sharing source code with customers,
partners and public sector worldwide
gt500K developers Windows, CE.NET, ASP.NET, ROTOR
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File format

• Backwards compatibility
• Standard formats HTML, RTF
• Real future XML for data exchange and
  interoperability
• WordML schema
• SpreadsheetML schema
• Support for custom schema designs
• License concerns Please talk to us
• Archiving needs Government and Parliament
  License agreement for Archival, Forensic and
  Security Use of MS Office file format
  documentation

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Contact us

• wilgrom_at_microsoft.com
• mlange_at_microsoft.com