ECPRD ICT WG meeting Microsoft’s perception Wilfried Grommen GM Business Strategy November 2003
Organisation Technology Products Content e -parliament Maintenance Security Control responsibility access reliability integrity Flexibility innovation transparency Disclosure E-parliament requirements
Software drives business value
Architecture matters Web Services + Service-Oriented Architecture
From Tightly Coupled… Schema Agreements Programming Language Object Model Application Database Operating System Database Operating System Programming Language Object Model Application You Your Partner Complexity Complexity …To Service Oriented
Web Services Collaboration “Secure, Reliable, Transacted” A Reality Business Processes Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) Quality of Service Transactions Reliable Messaging Security Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Messaging Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Extensible Markup Language (XML) Other protocols Other services Description
User-focused services
Integrated Innovation Web Services Everywhere TDS Web Services DB-Lib ODBC POP3IMAP MAPI SMTP LDAP ADSI SMB DAVUDDI COM DCOM MSMQ EDI EAI Adaptors Web Services IMP “Greenwich” RTC SIP
OpenSourceSharedSource Public Domain BusinessModelsVS. Industry, IP, economics, policy… Product competition Separate the Topics of DiscussionStandards
Industry Move To The Middle IBMAppleSUNSAPOracleMicrosoftRealNetworks Red Hat CollabNet VA Systems XimianSuSESendmail Business Model Business Model Customer Benefit Customer Benefit
Shared Source Initiative SSI Framework LicensingRights Source Code DeliveryTechnicalValue TrustValueToolsCommunity CustomerNeed Microsoft is sharing source code with customers, partners and public sector worldwide Support Customers New Development Education & Research Business Opportunity >500K developers Windows, CE.NET, ASP.NET, ROTOR…
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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