NetBenefit's Robinson believes the WIPO dispute resolution could work for new domain name extensions created in the future, but warns that the organisation may have missed the boat on existing top level domains like .com and .net.
Two open source groups - KDE (K Desktop Environment) League, and GNOME (GNU Object Modelling Environment) - are battling to be the pre-eminent supplier for the Linux desktop. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, compares the process to...
The point is illustrated by the primary focus of its recent meeting, the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The same kind of work is now being devoted to MDA. The meeting voted to make MDA the official basis for OMG standards and also agreed a...
The definition in progress for "choreography," for example, is "the specification of the ordering of messages from one node's perspective or a collection of nodes. While other efforts to standardise terminology are under way at the W3C's Web...
For those less focused on the more theoretical aspects of IT, model driven architecture (MDA) is an example approach to model-oriented software development espoused by the Object Management Group. This is where a model driven approach comes in as...
Intellectual-property issues - that is, matters involving patents, copyright and trade secrets - are attracting more attention because of open source software, which by definition may be shared, changed and redistributed.