This blog is going to be about something very difficult, i.e. a
huge challenge: the attempt to reach global recognition for
KIX as a de facto standard for collaborative support during integrated decision making.
Right. We are talking IT here - although not necessarily high tech IT. KIX depends on lots of high tech IT, but KIX itself has been designed to be as simple as possible given a very complex task.
If you haven't stopped reading by now you are invited to take part in the story - maybe just as a watcher - maybe as a participant, i.e. comments are most welcome.
Praise is not a break through...Every demonstration of the workings of KIX has so far resulted in the recognition that KIX represents a potential technical break through. But none of those watching has dared to take the plunge and installed KIX for evaluation or, let alone, for production use. Obviously, there are some big hurdles to overcome.
The KIX story didn't begin today...In fact the original KIX idea goes back to the early eighties when I was working in the periphery of the telecom hot-house of Sweden (where many of the core ideas behind the mobile telecom revolution were born). However, I soon realised that at the time KIX was a far too big idea to even attempt to get off the ground, given the current state of the software and the computer communication technology.
In 2003 I changed my mind. Since then I have spent most of my spare time prototyping and implementing a working version of KIX. I have also had most valuable help from a friend of mine.
The first prototype was working in 2004. It was then able to serve as a web-based content management system for my website www.MetaAgility.com.
This summer KIX was mature enough to go into production at my place of work - JET-EFDA. There KIX is so far only used in a noddy application - collaborative reviews of software (requirements, sources and documentation). This application only exploits minimal aspects of the functionality of KIX.
Read more on KixFw at SourceForge.
