Windows Open Services Architecture

Windows Open Services Architecture (WOSA) is a set of proprietary Microsoft technologies intended to "...provide a single, open-ended interface to enterprise computing environments.".^[1] WOSA was announced by Microsoft in 1992.^[2] WOSA was pitched as a set of programming interfaces designed to provide application interoperability across the Windows environment.

The set of technologies that were part of he WOSA initiative include:^[3]

• LSAPI (Software Licensing API)
• MAPI (Mail Application Programming Interface)
• ODBC^[4] (Open Database Connectivity)
• OLE for Process Control
• SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface)
• TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface)
• Windows SNA (IBM SNA Networks)
• WOSA/XFS (WOSA for Financial Services)
• WOSA/XRT (WOSA for Real-time Market Data)

See also

• Component Object Model
• Object Linking and Embedding

References

1. overview PDF
2. "Infoworld March 9, 1992". Computer Business Review. 1992-02-26. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
3. "Definition of WOSA". PCMAG. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
4. corob-msft. "ODBC Basics". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-01-30.

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