Gentle persons: The road to nirvana, or hell, depending on your point of view, is littered with slogans.
The wikipedia article on "open architecture" isn't very good. The one on Webtopia is better http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/open_architecture.html We went from specifying open data standards in the 1980s to specifying open architecture standards in the 1990s. At each layer, there was a new crowd of young Turks who wanted to specify yet a higher layer. By the 2000s I was old enough and cranky enough to have lost my passion for it, not the least because I had come to realize that the marketing value of the slogans had become more important than any real interoperability of the systems based on them. Regards, Kent On 8/29/2011 6:12 AM, Anders Wallin wrote: > Yes, some of the early(1993-1994) EMC papers from NIST also use the > "open-architecture" term. A couple are referenced in the wikipedia > article: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Motion_Controller > >> A quick google turns up the MDSI page at http://www.mdsi2.com/ which >> states "In 1993 MDSI revolutionized manufacturing with OpenCNC® - the >> world’s first open–architecture, CNC software not requiring any >> proprietary hardware". Sounds to me like they mean "Open" in a very >> specific and limited sense. It runs on generic hardware. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K > The only unified storage solution that offers unified management > Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. > Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
