Interoperability Quotes

At Microsoft, we're delivering a unified communications experience for customers one that breaks down the silos of communications that exist today and instead provides rich, software-based communication capabilities that allow people, teams and organizations to communicate simply and effectively while integrating seamlessly across networks, applications and devices. The interoperability of Live Communications Server and Office Communicator with Cisco's communication offerings will lead to more effective real-time collaboration capabilities for our mutual customers. - Zig Serafin

As we've said, we support interoperability of instant messaging. We are working with the IETF and think the standard should protect the privacy of AOL's users. We're also working with Apple, Sun, Real Networks, and Novell to move to a standard. Currently our service is interoperable with Lotus IBM, and a week ago, we made it interoperable with Novell's. - Andrew Weinstein

As we have seen over the last few years, service interoperability has unlocked the true potential for mobile. While we, as mobile operators, need to compete at the retail level, we must also continue to work together at the service interoperability level in order to stimulate customer demand and to continue to grow our industry. - Arun Sarin

And so, we'll have to see what wins the tug-of-war: greater vendor choice through interoperability and loose coupling, or reduced vendor selection for purposes of efficiency. - Ronald Schmelzer

[The new LSB desktop group will be dealing with more than just KDE and GNOME issues though. It will be dealing with] all issues dealing with interoperability... everyone at the table, and motivated to make the Linux desktop a success, everyone will be seeking a consensus. This may not [mean] making developers choose between KDE and GNOME, but instead finding a way to make it easier for ISVs to create applications that can easily work with both. - Jim Zemlin

[Mike Rogers, general manager for desktop and office productivity software at Sun, said the company listened to beta testers and users of trial copies of the new suite to give it the features and capabilities wanted by businesses.] We really believe that 95 percent of Microsoft Office users will find what they need here... We have set the bar very high on interoperability and the ability to bring [Microsoft Office file formats] into this seamlessly. - Mike Rogers