Interoperability by Design - Part II (Connecting People, Connecting Data and Connecting Diverse Systems)

posted by  techgeek (12)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Here’s where we used to be when it came to interoperability. 1980 was the best of times and it was the worst of times. It was the best of times in that, as long as you stayed with the products of a single vendor, you could be reasonably certain that everything in your infrastructure would work together, from the solutions and applications down through the operating system, computers, and other hardware.

But the price for this type of interoperability was too high. Customers were locked into a single vendor’s solution, a single vendor’s technology—and a single vendor’s price