On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Bhaskar, KS wrote:
I agree that from a user's perspective, having a standard makes a technology
easier to accept, sell to management, sell to the general public, sell to politicians, etc.
From a vendor's perspective, it costs money to comply with a standard, and
there must be enough people who say, "If you comply with the standard, I'll buy your product" (carrot) or, "If you don't comply with the standard, I won't buy your product" (stick). Especially in the case of a public company, there is a fiduciary responsibility to the owners (the general public) to spend money to maximize return.
In the case of an M standard, who would proffer carrots or take a stick to
the vendors?
Bhaskar;
If you read Brailers recent presentation to the HIMSS under "urgency" on p5 he speaks to not just the adoption gap but the variable adoption that includes products with different conventions for the same concepts or functions. Those differences are impediments to Suppliers.
-- Bhaskar
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