Owners Need To Demand Greater Interoperability

摘要

Just about everyone not living in a cave knows at this point that the quickest way to boost productivity, cut costs or clean up the environment is to give a project a good dose of technology. That usually means dealing with the latest and greatest in comput- er hardware and software. But the great advances made in this field over the past 20 years have resulted in a hodgepodge of approaches that makes interoperability of systems difficult. This sometimes has been deliberate so that software companies can cut out competitors and secure a cozy niche. But that means inefficiencies and higher costs for users of multiple systems, which is contrary to using the technologies in the first place.