The United States Navy has chosen to get rid of an age old practice—communicating in all capital letters, according to CNN.com.
Now while many of us think it’s a good idea because always using caps looks like you’re angry or yelling all the time, the U.S. Navy has a different reason.
"The Navy gains significant cost efficiencies by eliminating the current Defense Message System (DMS) infrastructure and simply using the existing email infrastructure for final delivery," said Naval Messaging Program Manager James McCarty, at U.S. Fleet Cyber Command in a press release. "By utilizing this methodology we will be able to send messages at 10 percent of the cost and size of current systems."
In essence, the Navy is looking to be more cost efficient. According to McCarty, they are also aware of how annoying the uppercase letters can be.
"Lowercase messages are here to stay; they provide a more readable format, which can delivered to and shared on any of the current Web 3.0 technologies (chat, portals, wikis, blogs, etc.)," said McCarty. "It is true that we still have systems that are unable to process mixed case; in these instances, the C2OIX system will be able to convert the text to upper case before making final delivery.”
The lowercase format is a part of a new system called the Command and Control Office Information Exchange, or C2OIX. Its use will begin in August 2013.
According to the release “The final phase of C2OIX is scheduled to begin in 2014 and will bring messaging into a true net-centric cloud computing virtual environment.
