Title: Standardize on protocols and formats, not vendors and applications
Tags: english, nuug
Date: 2009-02-18 11:50
Publish: 2010-01-01

Where I work, one of the decisions taken a long time ago that has
stood out as a very good base to build computer systems on, is the
decision to standardize on network protocols and exchange formats
instead of applications.

 - on network protocols and exchange formats
   - open standards is a clear advantage
 - give support on applications
  - allow other apps
 - allow us to change clients and keep the servers, or replace the
   servers and keep the clients

 - smtp
 - imap
 - nfs
 - ldap
 - ntp
 - X11
 - syslog
 - ODF
 - text
 - html
 - rst