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+		<title>Standardize on protocols and formats, not vendors and applications</title>
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+                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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+&lt;p&gt;Where I work at the University of Oslo, one decision stand out as a
+very good one to form a long lived computer infrastructure.  It is the
+simple one, lost by many in todays computer industry: Standardize on
+open network protocols and open exchange/storage formats, not applications.
+Applications come and go, while protocols and files tend to stay, and
+thus one want to make it easy to change application and vendor, while
+avoiding conversion costs and locking users to a specific platform or
+application.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This approach make it possible to replace the client applications
+independently of the server applications.  One can even allow users to
+use several different applications as long as they handle the selected
+protocol and format.  In the normal case, only one client application
+is recommended and users only get help if they choose to use this
+application, but those that want to deviate from the easy path are not
+blocked from doing so.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It also allow us to replace the server side without forcing the
+users to replace their applications, and thus allow us to select the
+best server implementation at any moment, when scale and resouce
+requirements change.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend standardizing - on open network protocols and
+open formats, but I would never recommend standardizing on a single
+application that do not use open network protocol or open formats.&lt;/p&gt;
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