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Expect OpenXML win for Microsoft at ISO

It's the nature of the system, admits Andy Updegrove, legal advisor to the Linux Foundation. The format of Microsoft Office will likely become an official International Standards Organization standard at the end of this month.   (Picture by Dan Bricklin, taken at the Harvard Faculty Club...

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Andy Updegrove, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Is Microsoft preventing Corel from supporting ODF?

In a recent blog entry entitled Shame on Corel, Andy Updegrove, legal counsel to OASIS (the consortium that's the steward of the OpenDocument Format specification), lashes out at Wordperfect for wavering on support of ODF. The blog points to a recent eWeek story that reported that Corel would support...

Tags: Corel Corp.

Blog posts 2005-10-21

Larry Rosen: 'Good time' not fast enough for open source/standards

Two recent posts of mine -- one about the Apache/OASIS snafu and another that uses that snafu as an example of how commercial software vendors' long-time dalliance with open standards may turn out to be deals with open source devils for them -- have drawn heated debate regarding the confict...

Tags: Andy Updegrove, open source, open standard

Blog posts 2005-07-14

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Open source scores small victory at White House

Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government's choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government's technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers. ...

Tags: White House, Government, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment

With all the President has on his plate ....... why would he ever waste one nueron on FOSS. The proper place for FOSS to be considered is the level it is being considered. The Executive Branch should never be involved.Obama should pony up some billions for FOSS from...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment

ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense,  but it's high time that...

Tags: Procurement, F/OSS, ConsortiumInfo.org, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-20

TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall

By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won't get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft. OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license...

Tags: TomTom, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Wall, Linux, Construction, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel

Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux kernel, Tom-Tom, TomTom, patent

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

What might come of the OOXML revolt?

It's late, and in terms of the process it's hopeless, but the appeals of the ISO vote making Office Open XML OOXML an official standard could still have an impact. Andy Updegrove has been giving great coverage of all this at his Standards Blog, and writes that...

Tags: Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-31

Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote

Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...

Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-30

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gapBlimey.[i]The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office.[/i]If the Commission decides that Office support of ODF doesn't increase customer choice, that would imply that they potentially might prevent Microsoft from supporting this ISO standard?At the same time,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office. It wonders whether the move increases competition. (Picture from BoycottNovell.) This comes just a day after Microsoft, with great fanfare, said it would add support for ODF, Adobe PDF and...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, European Union, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe

Looks like Microsoft’s Office Open XML will be an ISO standard after all. Maybe. Pundits â€" even OOXML rivals --predicted on Sunday that the Redmond, Wash. software giant has amassed the required number of votes to pull it over the goal line. Of course, a final vote...

Tags: Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-31

The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO

In all the talk (and there's been plenty of talk) concerning the ISO meetings on Office OpenXML OOXML one point stands out. (Picture from Stephesblog.) The U.S. voted no. As Andy Updegrove notes, the vote involved approving over 900 changes to OOXML meant to...

Tags: U.S., Microsoft Office, Idea, Problem, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given

While there's still a month left before the final votes are tallied, Microsoft's bid to gain ISO standards approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format is anything but guaranteed. Friday February 29 marked the end of a week-long ballot-resolution meeting in Geneva, where participants debated...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-01

EU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source move

EU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source moveEU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source moveOh jeez, is there anything that will please the EU? Despite Microsoft even going as far as offering source code these regulators still can't accept it. Money laundering is what its really turning out to be....

Tags: Regulations, Money Laundering, Todd Bishop, ECIS, open source, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft open-source, Microsoft open-source move, regulator, interoperability

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISO

Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISOMany standards are owned by someone.I don't undersand some people stand on this issue. When it comes to office automation, Microsoft is the dominant player. Yeah, we've got all Open Offices and Google apps and the like, but they are insignificant compared to Office. A standard that...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, Adobe PDF, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...

Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future

I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...

Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-16