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Subject: Fw: Evaluation
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:16:22 +0100
From: Graham Taylor <graham(a)openforumeurope.org>
To: Shane M. Coughlan <coughlan(a)fsfeurope.org>, Georg C. F. Greve
<greve(a)fsfeurope.org>, Rod Norman <rod(a)openforumeurope.org>, Bob
Blatchford <bob(a)openforumeurope.org>
Just received
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*From:* Peter Henderson <mailto:p.henderson@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
*To:* 'Graham Taylor' <mailto:graham@openforumeurope.org>
*Sent:* Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:51 PM
*Subject:* RE: Evaluation
Dear Graham,
Attached is a draft evaluation of Certified Open, performed by one
of my colleagues in OMII. We found the assessment of two OMII software
components quite enlightening. This draft is for your comments. We will
not publish without your agreement and ask you not to circulate, cite or
quote until we at OMII have decided whether or not to proceed with
publication. I will, however, let Stephen Rowe have sight of it (with
the same constraints). Stephen and I met on April 22^nd and agreed that
dstl would seek to determine how they could evaluate your offering.
Basically, they need to find an appropriate person. By sending our
report to Stephen, I trust this will prompt him that (as far as I am
aware) this intention is still outstanding. Apart from this publication
to dstl, I will withhold publication until I have your endorsement. I
look forward to hearing from you
Regards, Peter
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Professor Peter Henderson
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
+44 (0) 23 8059 3440
*From:* Graham Taylor [mailto:graham@openforumeurope.org]
*Sent:* 23 April 2008 12:03
*To:* Peter Henderson
*Cc:* Rowe Stephen
*Subject:* Re: Evaluation
Peter, thanks for this and thanks again for the meeting. I was very
encouraged by the almost identical language we were both using and the
commonality of the objectives.
Firstly on Certified Open I can confirm the trial will remain open for
the forseeable future. As discussed we will only be in a position to
formally launch once we are satisfied we have a balance between industry
and user buy-in. Equally that all the lessons from trialling have been
absorbed. I now dont expect this to be reached before end June. So your
OMII input will be highly valuable.
On the wider discussion with Steve and MOD I will of course be very
happy to present CO to the wider supplier group if you think that would
be helpful, and possibly ease any concerns they might have. I would
confirm that during the trial period all the data is entirely
confidential, and there is no cost involved in the exercise. I have just
received one input back from one of the triallists on the LG trial which
suggested a 30 min allowance for completion of the online form - so it
is not an undue effort. We would also be very interested in a discussion
whereby MOD were provided full and confidential access, or rights to
maintain an independent version.
Finally, by coincidence I bumped into Andrew Boswell in Brussels last
week - we were both on the same Eurostar. He asked me to send his
regards to you. He is now working for himself as a top level advisor,
mainly in the telecomms/network space, and is currently on a long term
assignment for Ericsson.
Best Rgds
Graham
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*From:* Peter Henderson <mailto:p.henderson@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
*To:* 'Graham Taylor' <mailto:graham@openforumeurope.org>
*Sent:* Friday, April 18, 2008 4:11 PM
*Subject:* Evaluation
Dear Graham,
As promised, I have now assigned someone to evaluate the
Certified Open tool, by entering data on some of the OMII
components. This guy wont be able to do the work until the
beginning of May. Im assuming itll take him about a week (by the
time he has reported back to me). Can I assume that the free period
will still be available to us, even in May? Once we have evaluated
it, Ill report back to you. You may want to come down and talk to
us about it. And, of course, Ill tell Steve what weve done.
Independently of that, Ill see if Steve wants to do something
directly. I expect to see Steve next week
Cheers, Peter
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Professor Peter Henderson
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
+44 (0) 23 8059 3440
*From:* Graham Taylor [mailto:graham@openforumeurope.org]
*Sent:* 11 March 2008 20:12
*To:* p.henderson(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
*Cc:* Rowe Stephen
*Subject:* call
Peter, it was very good to speak to you this afternoon. It never
ceases to amaze me at the extent at which ICL has managed to
percolate the ecosystem in ICT.
As promised I've attached the brief user trial spec that we have
prepared for Certified Open. I look forward to meeting you on the
8th at about 1530. I'm going to be in France from friday until the
7th but if you want to speak to me either email or you can phone
direct on +33 5 53 90 10.
Best Rgds
Graham Taylor