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CONCLUSION
Enterprise data standards should be used by organizations that are
building and maintaining nontrivial application systems. The key for estab-
lishing enterprise data standards is to keep them as simple as possible and
to ensure that they are actually used on projects. It is recommended that
standards be borrowed from third parties or vendors. Where this is not
possible, it is recommended that a framework, such as the one included in
this article, be used to build a first cut of the enterprise standards. These
should then be validated in a few pilot projects before rolling them out to
the enterprise.
LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS DEFINING STANDARDS
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
(Global support)
OSF DCE
Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Com-
puting Environment (middleware and enterprise
standards)
POSIX
applications operating with OS. Deals with system
calls, libraries, tools, interfaces, and testing
X/Open
European vendors and manufacturers
COSE
IBM, HP Santa Cruz Operation, Sun Microsystems,
UNIX — application/OS implementations
CORBA
Object Management Group's Common Object
Request Broker Architecture
IEEE
U.S. Standards body; works to get buy-in from ANSI
SQL Access Group
Call-Level Interface (CLI) and Remote Database
Access (RDA)
ISOC
Internet Society. Internet standards and internet-
working techniques
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