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IT Poll: How Important Are Open Standards for Social Business?

We told you earlier today about IBM’s strategy of targeting developers with its new enterprise 2.0/social business platform. Part of IBM’s strategy is to emphasize open standards such as ActivityStreams, OAuth and OpenSocial.

“Open standards” is a major part of the strategy of several vendors, such as Jive and Socialtext. We published a paper last year on the subject of web-oriented architecture and open standards that was sponsored by Socialtext.

How important are open standards to you as a customer?

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