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Tim Bray claimed in a keynote last week that "XML and open source are the parallel outcomes of a single trend."
Following up on this thought in his blog, "Ongoing," he wrote:
"I don't think that the argument is that subtle or difficult. In the old days, when you went out to get IT infrastructure, it was a black box and all you worried about was how much it cost and what its features and UI were like. If you asked how the software worked, or where the data was or what its format was, you were told not to bother your pretty little head."
"These days, interoperation and integration are everything. You'd better have open interfaces, open networks, open services; that is, open data. Which in practical terms usually means XML."
Bray's argument is, as he said, simple. Once the world's IT customers realize that they've basically won in their quest for what Bray called "unrestricted visibility into their own data," they're going to start wondering why they can't see inside the software they're betting their business on.
"Which is to say, exactly the same forces that are driving the world to open data in general and XML in particular are driving us towards open source."
Bray ended, with charactertistic candor: "Secret-source software probably isn't going away, but in an increasingly open world, it looks weirder and weirder."
"I am not saying that users should stop paying for software," he added (Bray now works for Sun Microsystems, though his private blog and Sun are not to be confused), "or that companies should stop planning to make money from it."
"My employer is in the mist of launching Solaris 10, and it's going to be Open Source and free to download, and we sincerely hope to make a lot of money from it. But the days when the recipe for success included wrapping the engineering in a veil of secrecy, those days are gone."
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Expo series, of the International Virtualization Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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open sourcery 11/22/04 03:22:20 AM EST | |||
What a breath of fresh air Tim Bray is! he writes the clearest tech blog anywhere on the Web. Thanks again, Tim. |
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