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Sep 20, 2003, 01:00 (11 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven Berkowitz)
"Tuesday saw Dell president and COO Kevin Rollins deliver the
keynote at the TECHXNY show. Rollins' major theme was the embracing
of open standards by the tech industry. In his view, open standards
represent a maturity, a stability and sense of reliability in the
IT world that enables innovation. Such standards yield a solid base
of commodity pieces which can, with imagination, be combined into
non-commodities. Think rack-mounted servers networked into Beowulf
Clusters. Or, in Rollins' example, flour and sugar combined into
Krispy Kreme.
"The language Rollins used to deliver this content was
intriguing. He spoke of the 'standards based approach to
innovation.' In illustrating the recombinatory innovation idea, he
noted that IT spending is moving away from 'costly, proprietary
systems.' Most tellingly, he praised the 'Open Innovation' model,
explaining how more perspectives on an issue yield better solutions
that are quicker to market, echoing the open source aphorism, 'many
eyes tame complexity...'"
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