<p>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 exchange/storage formats, not applications.
+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
<p>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 over time, when scale and resouce
+best server implementation at any moment, when scale and resouce
requirements change.</p>
<p>I strongly recommend standardizing - on open network protocols and