{"id":1002,"date":"2007-04-10T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/04\/10\/double-a-side-whats-the-point-of-microsoft-host-integration-serverradical-transparency\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T14:42:09","slug":"double-a-side-whats-the-point-of-microsoft-host-integration-serverradical-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/double-a-side-whats-the-point-of-microsoft-host-integration-serverradical-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"double A-side: What’s the point of Microsoft Host Integration Server?\/Radical Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good question<\/a> from Timothy Sipples at mainframe blog<\/a>. What is<\/strong> the point of Microsoft Host Integration Server? He points out that zSeries already offers a host (geddit?) of options for integration-not least TCP\/IP, but also HTTP and native XML Web Services access. Timothy makes some good points. Unfortunately the maths is b0rked because practically any major Microsoft enterprise customer is going to get this stuff for free under the terms of their volume licensing agreement. Same for IBM and<\/em> Microsoft customers. On the other hand the calculation doesn’t include hardware and support costs, so Tim still has a point. I think the topology and redundancy arguments are probably stronger though. I wonder what Charles Fitzgerald<\/a> would say?<\/p>\n

On a completely different note, Charles, just because someone keeps a dossier on you, doesn’t mean you have to change your behaviour. The EU has a dossier on Microsoft, right? Look at Mike Magee<\/a> of The Inquirer, also founder of The Register- still breaking exclusives after being in the business for god knows how long. His style never changes. Living declaratively and transparently means *not* having to change your style\/MO all the time…<\/p>\n

Finally though I do really like Charles’ take on truly radical journalistic transparency, which channels some of the ideas people like Dan Farber and David Berlind<\/a> have been laying out for a while. Would I buy into a publication that offered up this much information? Most definitely. Charles describes what I see as a compelling future for the magazine: <\/p>\n

They could post the stories they’re working on, let people vote on who to put on the cover and might as well share all their financials (no Reg FD issues when you’re privately held). Reporters like Fred could post all their interview notes and logs of what PR people they have met and been pitched by. Put the ad revenue per page right by the page number. Letting readers have the data to look for any correlations between editorial coverage and advertising revenue would be a radical blow for transparency<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good question from Timothy Sipples at mainframe blog. What is the point of Microsoft Host Integration Server? He points out that zSeries already offers a host (geddit?) of options for integration-not least TCP\/IP, but also HTTP and native XML Web Services access. Timothy makes some good points. Unfortunately the maths is b0rked because practically any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}