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Everyone recognizes the advantages of a fieldbus standard. However, end users are the primary beneficiaries, and vendors lose their proprietary edge.
All the while, multi-vendor committees meet to develop the "fieldbus standard". But, this movement is futile =96 since committees must achieve a consensus, and many suppliers thwart consensus. For this very reason, the European Standards Committee approved no less than eight "standards" for fieldbus. Which simply causes confusion.
Which brings us to Pinto's Law of Open-systems Confusion:
C =3D P x V/U
where:
C is the Confusion V is the number of Vendor's supporting a "standard" U is the number of happy Users and P is Pinto's Confusion-factor, which decreases non-linearly with time
Pinto's Law also governs other major standards developments - the emergence of competing standards such as VHS vs Beta format for video
tape; PC vs Apple microcomputers; PC operating systems Windows vs UNIX vs Linux, etc.
My new article is up on the AutomationTechies.com website - Pinto's Law of open-systems confusion:
"http://www.automationtechies.com/sitepages/art384.php":http://www.automationtechies.com/sitepages/art384.php
I'll appreciate your comments and feedback.::
Cheers:
jim
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Jim Pinto
email : [email protected]
web: www.JimPinto.com
San Diego, CA., USA
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Everyone recognizes the advantages of a fieldbus standard. However, end users are the primary beneficiaries, and vendors lose their proprietary edge.
All the while, multi-vendor committees meet to develop the "fieldbus standard". But, this movement is futile =96 since committees must achieve a consensus, and many suppliers thwart consensus. For this very reason, the European Standards Committee approved no less than eight "standards" for fieldbus. Which simply causes confusion.
Which brings us to Pinto's Law of Open-systems Confusion:
C =3D P x V/U
where:
C is the Confusion V is the number of Vendor's supporting a "standard" U is the number of happy Users and P is Pinto's Confusion-factor, which decreases non-linearly with time
Pinto's Law also governs other major standards developments - the emergence of competing standards such as VHS vs Beta format for video
tape; PC vs Apple microcomputers; PC operating systems Windows vs UNIX vs Linux, etc.
My new article is up on the AutomationTechies.com website - Pinto's Law of open-systems confusion:
"http://www.automationtechies.com/sitepages/art384.php":http://www.automationtechies.com/sitepages/art384.php
I'll appreciate your comments and feedback.::
Cheers:
jim
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Jim Pinto
email : [email protected]
web: www.JimPinto.com
San Diego, CA., USA
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