Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
Last week Bill Gates wrote an email about interop which is interesting because emails from Bill indicate a strong interest by Microsoft J) His interop premise was threefold:
1. The need for interop will never go away.
2. The only way interop had worked in the past has been through interfacing software and hard work; not any of the IT snake oils that have been touted.
3. The way we will get interop to work in the future is via interfacing standards (XML and WS-*).
I agree with all he says although I think it will be a long and hard road. I also think that architecture, abstraction and modelling will play a big part in making it happen but then I guess if you are Bill you can leave the details to peons like me J.
Do go and read the email and have a look at the interop site (it is after all interop month). The best MS interop blog is Simon Guest’s.