blog/data/2009-02-18-protokoll-og-format.txt

   1 Title: Standardize on protocols and formats, not vendors and applications
   2 Tags: english, nuug
   3 Date: 2009-02-18 11:50
   4 Publish: 2010-01-01
   5
   6 Where I work, one of the decisions taken a long time ago that has
   7 stood out as a very good base to build computer systems on, is the
   8 decision to standardize on network protocols and exchange formats
   9 instead of applications.
  10
  11  - on network protocols and exchange formats
  12    - open standards is a clear advantage
  13  - give support on applications
  14   - allow other apps
  15  - allow us to change clients and keep the servers, or replace the
  16    servers and keep the clients
  17
  18  - smtp
  19  - imap
  20  - nfs
  21  - ldap
  22  - ntp
  23  - X11
  24  - syslog
  25  - ODF
  26  - text
  27  - html
  28  - rst