what is your idea about standard-setting organizations and its relation to open standards?

So, as to what I have read and understand to the article that I have read, it states their that the distribution of standards which are created by developers of standards are of intellectual property (are legal property right over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law.) just like any other publications which are protected by copyright laws and international treaties. Except for those central governments who produces standards (public domain) which are not amenable to any copyright law.

Before SSO exists, their where lots of standards organizations existing but because of the fast evolution of technology existing standards organizations having hard times in dealing with it, that is why the SSO was created as new class of standard setters.

The scope of work of SSO: The developers of technical standards are generally concerned with interface standards, which detail how products interconnect with one another, and safety standards, which establish characteristics required for a product or process to be safe for the humans, animals and environment. The subject of their work can be narrow or broad.

So to the question, what is the relation of SSO to open source is that (based on my understanding) it is clearly connected since all open source of even propriety softwares needs standards inorder for it to fit to human need. I agree with what Mr. Mejares has said "They are only concerned about creating a "Standard". So in effect you could say that the SSO created the Universal Standard and both the proprietary sector and the "open" groups incorporate these "universal" standards into their products."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property

COMDDAP Event.

COMDDAP (Computer Manufacturer Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines) held victorious seminars, orientations, exhibits. Other manufacturers have given freebies for all who have attended the exhibit and or contribute in their activities. It was entertaining studying those technologies (manufacturers) nowadays that they have time to launch it and made a exhibit for 3days at Grand Ballroom, Apo Bayview Hotel, here at Davao City last July 2-4, 2009.

At first, I was thrilled to be at the said affair especially for Computer related courses. We will not just meet new acquaintances but we are able to know the latest inclination of technology. Credit to the COMDDAP for having we invited for their exhibits. Many schools have participated in the said event; we have the University of Mindanao, Ateneo de Davao, STI, USEP and many other schools that offer computer related courses.

The COMDDAP scheduled 4 orientations per day so that all students or guests who would like to attend will be accommodated since the area that they've rented for orientations is diminutive. I and my fellow colleagues were scheduled on Thursday (July 02, 2009) for the orientation. The scheduled orientations must be registered online on their site www.comddap.org since it has limited seats only. We are fortunate to avail one of their orientations.

I have attended the 2-4pm session and the speaker of the Jupiter was Mr. Celster Santos. He discusses about the Jupiter Systems Inc. The said company tackles about the ERIC DMS (Brilliant Dealer Management System). The DMS has general features of:

a.) Monitor Sales Executive Activities
b.) Sales lead monitoring from Initial Inquiry to Actual Close.
c.) Sales quotation processing
d.) Support sales of new & used vehicles
e.) Multiple pricing & discounting schemes
f.) Financing & Insurance transactions
g.) Vehicle Inventory
h.) Customer incident & resolution recording
i.) Interface to Manufacturer system
j.) Reports & Queries
k.) Highly Graphical technician assignments & loading window
l.) Customer appointments
m.) Repair orders & estimates
n.) Customer/Vehicle Service history
o.) Technician time-in/time-out
p.) Parts requisitioning
q.) Control parts & Consumable costs

This general feature of their system was discussed during our session at the four corners of the room. As we are opening the discussion, its kind of tiresome because all I thought was we are to discussed about vehicles and the likes but I was totally wrong, yes, we are to discussed about vehicles but vehicles here are just their examples, what they are trying to utter is about the system they are using for their business as dealers of cars. The system is so big, big enough to suffice a large group. What was good about the system is that it can be broken into parts that the customers wants to have. For example the company or establishment needed the customer's application only, the company need not to buy the entire system but the systems or applications they just needed.

Then the part 2 of the discussion was the HP and Nexus. They are about to introduce us about their product: the Thin Client. Thin Client or Lean provides the highest degree of knowledge and experienced in the design and delivery of advanced Server Based and Virtual Computing solutions. It’s a big help for our environment since it saves power, long term of life cycle, uses small space or u can just have it used at the back of your monitor, beside or under your computer table, is a low-cost, centrally-managed computer devoid of CD-ROM players, diskette drives, and expansion slots.

The term derives from the fact that small computers in networks tend to be clients and not servers. Since the idea is to limit the capabilities of these computers to only essential applications, they tend to be purchased and remain "thin" in terms of the client applications they include. As software as a service (SaaS) gains popularity, it is expected that thin clients and blade PC's will replace desktop PCs in many work and educational environments. In general, they are not as vulnerable to malware attacks, have a longer life cycle, use less power and are less expensive to purchase.
Thin client is also used to describe software applications that use the client-server model where the server performs all the processing.

Advantages of Thin Client:
• Lower IT administration costs.
• Easier to secure.
• Enhanced data security.
• Lower hardware costs.
• Less energy consumption.
• Easier hardware failure management.
• Worth less to most thieves.
• Operable in Hostile Environments.
• Less network bandwidth.
• More efficient use of computing resources.
• Simple hardware upgrade path.
• Lower noise.
• Less wasted hardware.

After the discussion with the HP & Nexus, the company held a Q & A portion, which we as listeners will be the one to answer to their questions. They've giving away 3 2GB & 1 8GB flash drives, 2 t-shirts with a print of their company's logo and name. Unfortunately, I was not called.
But with or without their freebies, that said event was good. Before I forget, the Registration (visitors, students) was powered by CHASE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION.

After attending the 2 succeeding orientations, we then together with my friends take a look at some parties who joined the said event. We also have in our mind to have freebies coming from them... hehehe.... but unfortunately we only avail the "sandbox" freebies in exchange of registering our mobile numbers at their sites. hehehe... but it was fun...

That was the COMDDAP 3days event.