Showing posts with label skandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skandal. Show all posts

Monday, August 09, 2010

HP i hetväder igen


Det var inte så länge sen HP var inblandade i en skandal med rättsligt efterspel och nu har HPs CEO Mark Hurd tvingats lämna företaget efter en ny skandal.

Briljanta människor har också lämnat HP de senaste åren, jag skulle tro att det var när Compaq och HP gick ihop som HPs företagskultur började utarmas och då vill jag ändå inte tala illa om Compaqs företagskultur. Men när två så stora bolag går samman stryker en av företagskulturerna på foten. HP hade en lång kultur av innovation, Compaq var i huvudsak ett bolag som gjorde PC-kloner.

Jag hoppas HP får en ny CEO som leder företaget till tidigare höjder.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Locket ramlar av

ISO har lagt locket på, tryckt händerna för öronen och ropar LALALALALALA så högt det bara kan i kritikstormen mot att Microsofts proprietära format OOXML blev en ISO-standard.

Norge som kovände och entusiastiskt godkände formatet i slutomgången har nu formligen imploderat av missnöje: 13 av 23 ledamöter i standardiseringsorgranisationen avgår i protest mot att OOXML godkändes.

Ju mer ISO vill tysta ner och gå vidare ju större blir skandalen.

ISO - I Sold Out.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

OOXML, wax on - wax off

Efter att ISO/IEC nekat att pröva invändningarna som flera länder hade mot OOXML har nu sex länder enats om CONSEGI 2008-deklarationen.

Här är hela deklarationen:
CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION

We, the undersigned representatives of state IT organisations from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Paraguay, note with disappointment the press release from ISO/IEC/JTC-1 of 20 August regarding the appeals registered by the national bodies of Brazil, South Africa, India and Venezuela. Our national bodies, together with India, had independently raised a number of serious concerns about the process surrounding the fast track approval of DIS29500. That those concerns were not properly addressed in the form of a conciliation panel reflects poorly on the integrity of these international standards development institutions.

Whereas we do not intend to waste any more resources on lobbying our national bodies to pursue the appeals further, we feel it is important to make the following points clear:

1.The bending of the rules to facilitate the fast track processing of DIS29500 remains a significant concern to us. That the ISO TMB did not deem it necessary to properly explore the substance of the appeals must, of necessity, put confidence in those institutions ability to meet our national requirements into question.

2. The overlap of subject matter with the existing ISO/IEC26300 (Open Document Format) standard remains an area of concern. Many of our countries have made substantial commitments to the use of ISO/IEC26300, not least because it was published as an ISO standard in 2006.

3. The large scale adoption of a standard for office document formats is a long and expensive exercise, with multi-year projects being undertaken in each of our countries. Many of us have dedicated significant time and resources to this effort. For example, in Brazil, the process of translation of ISO/IEC26300 into Portuguese has taken over a year.

The issues which emerged over the past year have placed all of us at a difficult crossroads. Given the organisation's inability to follow its own rules we are no longer confident that ISO/IEC will be capable of transforming itself into the open and vendor-neutral standards setting organisation which is such an urgent requirement. What is now clear is that we will have to, albeit reluctantly, re-evaluate our assessment of ISO/IEC, particularly in its relevance to our various national government interoperability frameworks. Whereas in the past it has been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer stands.

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Aslam Raffee (South Africa)
Chairman, Government IT Officer's Council Working Group on Open Standards Open Source Software

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Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni (Brazil)
Presidente, Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados

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Carlos Eloy Figueira (Venezuela)
President, Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información

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Eduardo Alvear Simba (Ecuador)
Director de Software Libre, Presidencia de la República

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Tomas Ariel Duarte C. (Paraguay)
Director de Informática, Presidencia de la República

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Miriam Valdés Abreu (Cuba)
Directora de Análisis, Oficina para la Informatización

Hur länge kommer bluffstandarden OOXML fortsätta orsaka kontroverser?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Standardbäraren Microsoft

Först mutade och hotade de igenom OOXML som en "standard" hos ISO (ISO betyder I Sold Out) och nu visar de sig att de naturligtvis inte följer ens sin egen standard.