[Fsf-friends] Demystifying Interoperability - Express Computer

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Imagine a hypothetical scenario of a business transferring funds from an
overseas bank account to their supplier in India. The transfer takes
place without the appropriate conversion between the foreign currency
and Indian Rupees. Or a landlord, dealing with two different municipal
departments, suddenly finding his property tax rates shooting through
the roof because one department’s system recorded the extent of his
property in square meters whilst the other ‘sent’ the value in square
feet! Though these examples are hypothetical, they illustrate the
consequences of IT systems failing to ‘communicate’ or ‘interoperate’
with each other.

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070402/technology03.shtml


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