Enterprisey thoughts – John Gøtze
Openization
An Afternoon with Peter Quinn
05 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Openization
Peter Quinn, the former state CIO of Massachusetts, is on a European speaking tour. Today he spoke in Copenhagen at a public meeting arranged by Prosa. He gave a great presentation (similar to this presentation from last week) about the work of ITD and their Technical Reference Model (TRM) in particular. The Mass TRM is known mainly for adopting and enforcing the OASIS Open Document Format (for more about this, see Andy Updegrove’s extensive coverage).
Quinn’s story is compelling and his message is extremely important. The message is that opennes is the path to technological prophylaxis. Governments need to transform, do more with less, and open standards and technologies are essential for making this work.
Quinn quotes John F. Kennedy: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
Here in Denmark – where, once in a while, the old Viking strain shows through – standards have already become a political issue, and I hope Quinn can help stirring up political attention (he’s meeting politicians, journalists and bureaucrats on Monday).
XFormsAJAX-ODF
05 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Openization
James Governor: Is XForms the killer app for enterprise AJAX?
Bob Sutor: The pieces are falling into place
XForms and AJAX – of course. And ODFand web service are not unrelated at all. It’s when used together these standards become really powerful. eGovernment is an obvious area for this. Or rather, it should be. But where are the real-world examples?? I still see lots of dumb PDF-forms are …
Engineering Openization
06 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Openization
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The Danish weekly called Ingeniøren (Engineering Weekly) has on Friday an article, Politisk flertal kræver Ã¥bne it-standarder (Political majority requires open standards”) by Kurt Westh Nielsen. Kurt of course writes about our conference, and the fact that there was wide agreement among politicians that open standards are a good thing.
I’m quoted twice – and swear in one of the quotes (sorry Mom!). It’s about the use – or lack of use – of open standards in government online services. Indignation seemed a good approach, and I wasn’t the only one “caught” swearing …
The best quote of the day goes to Morten Kjærsgaard from OSL who closed the conference with an Elvis quote: a little less conversation, a little more action.
Bonus link: Sam Hiser: What is OpenDocument … Again?
On the radio
06 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Openization
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) has an excellent weekly programme called Harddisken (The harddisk). This coming weekend’s show will bring a feature about open standards. Jeff Kaplan was interviewed for the show, and I’ll be in the studio talking about the Danish context.
The show will also be availlabe online, although not in an open standard – DR uses Microsoft’s WMA-format. I’ll be sure to mock them on that, on the air 
At last week’s conference in Parliament, I also hit on DR for not using open standards.
Update: The show aired twice this weekend, and is also available online in two parts: Interview with Jeff Kaplan and interview with me. The full show is also available as a 51MB MP3-podcast. In the host Anders Høgh Nissen’s Hardblog he comes out with a strong recommendation of Morten Helveg’s motion in Parliament.
