Open standards
Open standards provide a framework for e-business that is widely accepted across the computer industry. With common standards, customers and vendors can write application programs that can run on different database systems with little or no modification. Application portability simplifies application development and ultimately reduces development costs.
IBM is a leader in developing open industry standards for database systems. IBM work in the database standards arena includes the following activities:
IBM submitted over half of the accepted proposals for the newest version of the SQL standard that is planned for 2003.
IBM is a key contributor to developing the first widely used standard for accessing SQL from Java (JDBC).
IBM helped ...
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