This is one of my personal experiences that I would love to share with you all. I would go in detail but it may take quite a few days to actually cover it. So if you are here bookmark us so that you dont miss any part of it. And yes next month we have an ergonmics series coming. So be sure to be check us every week.
About three years ago when I was in college doing my MBA, I had the good fortune of coming across a rather bizarre problem that changed my whole idea of interoperability in the software world. You wonder how a problem could be fortunate. Well, it was the solution of the problem that is the point of discussion and which will be the subject of the workshop that you are about to read.
We had a huge computer lab with state-of-the-art infrastructure. One fine September morning, the faculty gave us the wonderful news that a slow but sure make over from a Windows-based environment to a Linux-based one was in the works. The reasons were academic as well as financial. Though I was already tinkering with it on my home PC, I was ecstatic; finally I could taste the power of Linux on such a large scale over a network. But the ecstasy very soon passed away as I realized that interoperability between Linux and Windows machines over the network was going to be a major issue since the makeover was going to happen in batches. Even if a set of PCs were running Linux, they had to be connected to other Windows-based machines for basic resources such as file and print servers.
