[Coin-standards] minutes / strategy

[Irv Lustig]

At 02:56 PM 4/8/02 -0500, Leonardo B. Lopes wrote:
>How would you do business differently if we suddenly had a solution to
>this standards problem?

This statement assumes there is a "standards problem".

Today, we have an agreed upon standard, called MPS format.  The various 
vendors have some minor differences in how this standard is interpreted in 
some very detailed points, but for 99.90f problems that we each see, the 
interpretation of MPS files is the same.

The "solutions" that are being proposed are just to change the format from 
MPS to XML.  This wouldn't change how we do business, except we'd probably 
need more gigabytes of storage to store all those very fat XML files. :->




         -Irv Lustig
          ilustig at ilog.com
          Manager, Technical Services, ILOG Direct
          http://www.ilog.com/