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The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
Tags: Paul Greenberg
Blog posts 2009-03-30
Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2
Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season. On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.1 -- and Open XML -- for its forthcoming Office 2007 Service Pack 2, due early next year. More...
Tags: Developer, Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, ODF 1.1 Note, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
Blog posts 2008-12-17
Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
Blog posts 2008-12-03
Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?
Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...
Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Microsoft Corp., XML, Microsoft Office, OOo, Web-Stack, SOA, MSOffice-OOXML, OOo team
Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML
Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...
Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
Blog posts 2008-03-06
SaaS integration without the lock-in
After reading my post about Appirio’s eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration at the weekend, Zach Nelson of NetSuite wrote me an email to point out some of the downsides when integrating many different services in the way that Appirio has done:"How much would it cost to do what you described, and how...
Tags: Ecosystems, Development, Integration, Mashups, NetSuite, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
Blog posts 2007-05-16
Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burning
Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burningHave you been covering I.T. for long Mary-Jo?[i]"Do users really care enough about file formats ...."[/i]In terms of flame wars it comes second after Windows/Mac/Linux shoot-outs. So what do you think?As for end users, all they want is to be able to do is...
Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., MS-XML, leap year, EOXML, OpenDocument Format
Discussion threads 2007-05-10
MA says it will consider Open XML when ISO approves it
Now that ECMA has approved Microsofts Open XML format, Massachusetts will take a look at it but will move forward with standardizing on the OpenDocument Format starting Jan. 1, Bethann Pepoli, the states acting director of the division, said, according to Information Week. The state wont adopt Microsofts standard...
Tags: ECMA, Standards, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
Blog posts 2006-12-08
Hi TV, this is dishwaher speaking!
For several decades now, weve read that our homes will become smart and that well have many robotic slaves at our service. But it never worked. A recent European initiative, TEAHA short for The European Application Home Alliance wants to give another try. And it has enrolled some big industrial...
Tags: TEAHA team, TEAHA
Blog posts 2006-10-20
OpenDocument format gathers steam
OpenDocument format gathers steamThis is a must-win battle, but just more important is the battle ofapis and protocols for web services. But, if the battle of office formats is won, that will set the tone for the next battle of formats for web protocols and apis for web services....
Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., steam
Discussion threads 2005-11-10
Massachusetts: Out of Office
In a substantial blow to Microsoft, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will soon adopt open document policies that banish Microsoft Office documents from Bay State offices, News.com reports. The new regulations, which are still in a public comment period, identifies Open Document, the recently approved format used by Open Office...
Tags: XML
Blog posts 2005-09-01
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