This will involve neutrality with respect to web platform, application format and receiving device and so will probably take significantly longer than the UBL initiative. Not content with that, OASIS has also started a committee to devise a Web...
On top of the proposed document formats, the OASIS UBL group has released diagrams based on the unified modeling language (UML), a standard for software development, that give software engineers tools to build applications using XML documents.
What a great opportunity they missed, to inject movies, animation, diagrams, excitement and a physical demonstration of what was being described. Two of the most cataclysmic examples I have ever witnessed involved a university professor delivering...
He demonstrated tools for building programs via diagrams and models, without complex coding, skirting the "structured-unstructured boundary" that limits software development today. Email will also get more manageable, Gates promised, as Microsoft...
He said the company is trying to improve the PC user experience by incorporating cameras and by making "natural interfaces", such as speech recognition and pen-based writing, more commonplace. Through the extensive use of modeling, Microsoft thinks...
It seemed like a natural fit to bring that expertise inside of Cisco. Cisco Systems is set to announce plans to spend $31m on a small start-up called Orative, a move meant to help Cisco extend its Unified Communications software to mobile devices.