Bill Gates Vision of the Next Decade

A company's "digital nervous system" will respond to planned and unplanned events.

Requirements:

• object model convergence (across applications)
• Internet integration (W3C Document Object Model)
• data representation (W3C XML, XSL)
• componentization (exposing internals, reuse)
• enhanced user involvement (powerful scripting languages)

Translate to IDX Imperatives:

• interoperable components integrate heterogeneous applications
• drive everything to the Object Web (XML, XSL, DOM)
• reuse components internally, allow customers to reuse component interfaces
• dramatically improve user customization capabilities (GUI, workflow, and component interoperability)

References

• Gates, Bill. VBA and COM. Byte, March 1998, pp. 70-72.
• Mace, Scott et al. Weaving a Better Web. Byte, March 1998, pp. 58-68.
• Manola, Frank. Towards a Web Object Model. Object Services and Consulting, Inc., 1997.
• NCITS Technical Committee H7. Object Model Features Matrix. Doc. No.: X3H7-93-007v12b, May 25, 1997.
• OOPSLA'97 Business Object Workshop - see papers on heterogenous distributed workflow.