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Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft
Server & Tools, discusses Microsoft's
multifaceted approach to achieving
interoperability.
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Microsoft technology for open government
Achieving the goals of improved transparency, public participation, and collaboration called for by open government demands new thinking and new processes. For starters, it will require unprecedented integration among government agencies and their IT environments. Interoperability, cloud services, and open source development can help provide the flexible infrastructure government agencies need to meet today’s mandates.
When you are ready to move forward on open government features, we recommend these resources:
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Interoperability
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Sensible integration of diverse legacy systems generates a rich, creative technology
landscape to support open government goals, such as collaboration and innovation.
Microsoft participates in a variety of interoperability organizations, including:
Interop Vendor Alliance,
a community of software and hardware vendors working together to enhance interoperability
with Microsoft systems on behalf of our mutual customers.
The Open XML community,
a group of public institutions, businesses, technology professionals, academics,
and developers who support
ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML as an ISO/IEC
standard.
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Interoperability and Microsoft
Standards and Microsoft
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Software-plus-Services
Services in the cloud offer flexibility and the opportunity to reduce costs, strengthen
core capabilities, and increase business agility. Include cloud services in your
open government strategy when you need to get up and running quickly and scale to
accommodate variable loads. Microsoft cloud services can help you implement online
communications and data transfer, internal and external portals for online interaction
and publishing, document management, customer relationship management, and more.
Open Source
Microsoft participates actively in open source through Microsoft engineers and product
teams, with industry partners, and with OSS projects to develop interoperable solutions
that meet customer needs.
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Industry Reports
" Best Practices: Improve Development Effectiveness Through Strategic
Adoption Of Open Source" By Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Research, February 2nd, 2009 | Portable Document Format, 890 KB
" Predicts
2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model" By Mark Driver, Vice President,
Gartner, December 2008
" Open Source Is Not A Business Model" By Matthew Aslett,
Analyst, The 451 Group, October 2008 | Portable Document Format, 1.7 MB
" Participation in a World of Choice" Perspectives on open
source and Microsoft, March 2009 | Portable Document Format, 352 KB |
Microsoft Open Source Resources
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My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
BARACK OBAMA
January 21, 2009
From Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government
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