Development standards for the World

Tom Hi
        I've been in the IT industry for about forty years, and for the same 
period of time, many segments of the industry
        have talked ad infinitum, about industry standards.
        With the exception possibly of manufacturing methods, the software side 
of things has had a very broad range of 
        'Standards', which each and every interest tries to foist on the world
        - IBM standards
        - EDI standards
        - Sun Microsystems
        ................................and the list goes on.
        My conclusion is, there will never be any universal standards in IT, 
because of the proprietary nature of the business,
        and also because, the big boys on the block quite regularly create the 
standards.

my two cents


Ken Shields
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