Along with Open source and Open standards, we now have a new phrase; i.e. Open Government.

What does Open Government imply for standards?

Let’s take a step back. Prior to 1999, I used to work for an ERP vendor. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a complex class of software that is typically intended to manage all the functions of a company (such as Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Billing and so on). Inspite of their complexity, there was a mad scramble to install ERP systems which was mainly motivated by the Y2K deadline.

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It has been a year since Google launched its browser Chrome. So far its market share is below 3 percent. Despite superior technical performance, standards-compliance and open source it is still struggling well behind market leader IE and runner-up Firefox. Perhaps this experience serves to prove the old truth that innovation is not only about invention but also about marketing and distribution? At least this seems to be the lesson drawn at Googleplex.
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Background:

This blog is a summary of my discussion at the talkstandards forum last week in Brussels. I see both the talk and the event as the continuation of a debate – both online and offline.
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Like many people, I did not think highly of the Open Cloud manifesto episode last week and now that some resolution seems to have come of it with the apology from CCIF, it’s time to leave the CCIF manifesto episode behind to the wider issues.
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