Adoption of 11179 Standards
Despite the rising demand for efficient data integration solutions, Oracle, a major commercial supporter of ISO/IEC 11179 has canceled its support for this standard (see below). However, Software AG's COTS Metadata Registry (MDR) product supports the ISO 11179 standard and continues to be sold and used for this purpose in both commercial and government applications (see Vendor Tools section below).
While commercial adoption is increasing, the spread of ISO/IEC 11179 has been more successful in the public sector. However, it is unclear if this is due to different requirements for data exchange in the public sector, since its spread seems to follow the sphere of influence of the participants in the development of the standard, i.e. the reception is with U.S. government agencies, and with a limited group of national and international statistical organisations.
Organizations such as the United Nations and the US Government are large users of 11179 standards.
11179 is strongly recommended on the U.S. government's XML website. US Government's XML web site and is promoted by The OPEN Group as a foundation of the Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF http://www.opengroup.org/udef/). The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium working to enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
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