Open Standards at Sun
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Standards make things work together, and in turn, this interoperability drives efficiency and innovation. IT industry standards are developed in various arenas, from traditional Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) like ISO and IEC to newer consortia such as the W3C, OASIS and the Java Community Process. Sun dedicates significant resources to hundreds of standards efforts that address numerous technical and industry-specific issues, and our experience in network computing means we contribute to standards efforts across all computing domains. We believe that collective knowledge and action is a far more robust and viable way of planning the future of the IT industry than relying upon a solution developed by a single (or a few) vendor. Our technology development and product history is proof of this core belief: the OpenOffice file formats, LDAP, TCP/IP, the Java platforms, NFS, XML, and the Liberty Alliance specifications are just a few of the significant standards that Sun has helped bring to the world. Our commitment to collaboration and interoperability goes deeper than a simple definition of standards, however. We believe that the only standard worth supporting is an Open Standard. Read Sun's definition of an open standard and interoperability. Read Sun's letter to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regarding Open Standards and office documents. Read about the UN/Internet Governance Forum's Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards.
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