Jiri’s Notepad

Rationale Behind Passport Federation
“[Microsoft] is going to have to deal with using open standards for identity and authentication and data access and all these other pieces. Otherwise, their business is isolated to that entry point of the client, and businesses are not going to allow Microsoft to control their relationships with their customers. Customer identity […]

Managing the Digital Enterprise | Open Courseware Project. Excellent resource to the business side of the use of IT

Open standards and economics
Another suggestion on how open standards bring in more revenue to technology vendors. They increase the size of the market and though the margin is lower, total revenue is larger. [Steve Gillmor@Infoworld]