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Rapid tech innovation is a challenge to interoperability: Microsoft
By Eureka Bharali
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 23:24 IST |
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Bangalore: Bangalore: While around the globe, innovation in technology and bringing new apps are top priorities for any tech company, the rapid pace of innovations poses a challenge for interoperability of applications. "The pace of technology innovation is very fast, so, the biggest need is making all these infinite number of technologies interoperable, which requires the industry to work together," said Craig Kitterman, Sr. Technical Evangelist, Interoperability Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE), Microsoft.
As per recommendation of the Interoperability Customer Executive Council, a board set up by Microsoft, the companies should begin to work closely with their competitors as well as partners to enable better implementation of the opensource platform. Bob Muglia, Microsoft's Senior Vice President for the Server and Tools division in one of the Council's meeting said, "What is really important to us is interoperability between the portal functionality in our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) product and document management and content management servers developed by other companies, such as Documentum, SAP, BEA and IBM." The council which consists of 35 members globally includes Dr. P Madhav of IEG Hyderabad as the Indian representative.
Apart from the rapid technology innovation, it is the lack of awareness, which restrains companies to opt for interoperability. Currently, Microsoft has partnered for interoperability with over 30 firms of which 10 are engaged with Microsoft in India, including Sonata Software, Novell, Quest Software, Microland etc. Today, Microsoft is working with companies such as Novell, Red Hat, Sun, JBoss and SugarCRM to ensure interoperability with Linux/open source platformsl. When asked on the threat to Microsoft's market share with availability of Microsoft Intellectual property under Microsoft Open Specifications Promise and the Interoperability Principles, Ramkumar Kothandaraman, Director, Microsoft Technology Center said,"We do not see an immediate impact. The conditions in the long run are not yet assessed."