Once upon a time, standards were our friends. They provided industry-accepted blueprints for building homogeneous infrastructures that were reliably interoperable. Company A could confidently build an ...

A concise look at how proprietary access control systems drive long-term cost, risk and inflexibility, and why open standards provide a more scalable, interoperable and future-ready foundation for ...

Colleges and universities are at a crossroads when it comes to student data. They have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet harnessing it to drive meaningful change remains a ...

A consortium including Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and others under the Joint Development Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, is inviting peers to join the Margo initiative and ...

Nokia Corteca software suite now fully supports prpl lifecycle management (prpl LCM), helping operators to monetize value-added applications in the broadband home. Corteca uses open standards such as ...

It’s easy to frame open standards as a noble cause, somewhere between technical utopia and engineering idealism. But that sells them short. Open standards aren’t just good engineering practice.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The Overture Maps Foundation is focused on continuing what it calls its “collaborative efforts” to build ...

Automotive industry players, including OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and semiconductor manufacturers, recently announced the launch of the OpenGMSL Association (OGA), driving an open standard for serializer ...

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