Chief BIAS Officer: Open Data Standards

June 02, 2009

Open Data Standards - Relay to New Blog

I remain the Chief Bias Officer, biased because I believe in what I do, but unbiased in that my opinions are not strictly corporate or self-serving. I keep my clients interest at heart. That said, there are contexts where my opinion is clearly that of my company. Where both my Bias officer opinion and my opinion as Oco CTO are aligned. In those cases I'll post on the Oco IT blog. Please check out this post:

Open Standards, SaaS Business Intelligence, SQL, and Cloud Computing

It's about the whole "lock in" fear of SaaS, recently popularized by The Economist . This fear is not really justified so long as you ask your providers to support open data standards.

Jun 2, 2009 6:53:11 PM

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