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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2590)	4/1/1999 1:54:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (4) of 3178

OT> Arguable thoughts for open-standards. CATCH OF THE DAY: No-so-sweet Melissa I have a weird one for you today. The Melissa virus proves that technology favors diversity -- just as nature does. Here's why: the most effective viruses are deadly for a particular organism, but often irrelevant to species not their targets. Melissa is a Microsoft Word macro that acts only on Microsoft Outlook email clients. It can't touch other email applications, like QuickMail or Eudora (although other apps can carry the virus). Undiversified biological ecosystems, just like all-Outlook offices, are at increased risk of catastrophic infection, because the lack of diversity makes it more likely that a single failure can cripple the entire system. This argues in favor of open standards (no monolithic control over a system and, hopefully, no hidden vulnerabilities) and multiple platforms (if one system breaks, you can use another). If this is right, it also means that building reliable and secure systems means adopting diverse technology, not a single vendor's product. And that means the systems integration business is the place to be.

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