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Bruce Perens: A Vertical Market Seeks Open Standards (Datamation)

Bruce Perensdiscusses open standards in vertical markets in a Datamation article."History repeats itself in interesting ways. Vertical markets are today grappling with their own need for truly Open Standards, going through all of the pain that the broader IT industry suffered two decades ago. Fortunately, the verticals can learn from the experience of the broader IT industry that has already fought these battles.So, of all the critical industries crying out for Open Standards, who is campaigning for them in their own industry today? Is it the manufacturers of voting machines, who must establish high standards to safeguard democracy? Or the medical records system vendors?Nope, it's the makers of casino slot machines."

Big Blue Adopts Anti-Shenanigans Standards Policy

IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. "There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways," said Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards.

An IT Admin’s Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization

Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and applications off a USB flash drive or iPod, and centrally-managed updates delivered simultaneously. Whaley will also talk about key security benefits to building and deploying virtual desktops including malware immunity, backing up to the cloud and automatic rejuvenation.read more

Comodo

Digital certificates provide two factors to build trust online: the strength of the encryption and the visual assurance of authentication. Stronger encryption enhances protection because it's harder to break. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, recommends that site owners upgrade to 2048-bit digital certificates. (2007 NIST standards)read more

ISO Deploys Compiere ERP To Enhance Service

Redwood Shores, Calif., June 17, 2009 -– Compiere, Inc., the global leader in open source and cloud-based ERP solutions, announced today that the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has improved productivity, streamlined business processes, and enhanced customer service with Compiere ERP. ISO is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards for the public and private sectors. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ISO is a network of the national standards institutes in 161 countries and serves over 50,000 new customers every year.ISO selected Compiere ERP based on its proven success in reducing business process complexities, lowering IT infrastructure costs, ease of integration with internal systems, and flexibility to make changes quickly and cost effectively utilizing Compiere's Model Driven Application Platform.Operationally, Compiere supports 18,000 standards that are available in multiple languages and processes 5,000 customer orders per month primarily through online sales.With Compiere, ISO now has a fully integrated application supporting marketing, direct and online sales, accounting, and purchasing activities. Compiere ERP helps to consolidate ISO's product offerings consisting of International Standards and publications and products derived from ISO Standards. Compiere is also supporting ISO's pricing structure, inventory, subscriptions services for ISO standards and magazines, as well as invoicing and all related financial processes, including accounting and purchasing. ISO worked closely with Audaxis, a Compiere Gold Partner, to customize and implement Compiere, creating an integrated system with a robust webstore and a comprehensive back-office system using Compiere ERP.Nicolas Fleury, Director of Marketing and Communication at ISO, said, "Compiere's integrated features enabled us to replace a multi-applications sales and accounting infrastructure built with complex, costly interfaces with a unique, state-of-the-art application. Thanks to the powerful application platform model, we now have the ability to more quickly adapt our organization to a constantly changing environment and, of course, to our customers' expectations. This...