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- OpenDoc
- An earlier object-oriented compound document and component architecture. Documents and images could be embedded within or linked to documents set up as containers. OpenDoc was a superset of...
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- Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting
- Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting*New* news of *new* shocking meetings...... at http://www.groklaw.net/ Groklaw.LOL...Anyone that uses Groklaw as a source for any kind of information should probably know that Groklaw is the gutter tabloid of the internet.There is absolutely nothing unbiased about that sorry part of the internet.Seriously, someone thought...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Details Emerge, Groklaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's futureThere will never be a shortageof those who oppose freedom and support the rich and powerful. Will they be able to fool all the people, all the time?Never! There will always be at least one holdout........ Me!Good summation.This OD Foundation...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OSI, James Thurber, OpenDoc Format, OpenDocument Foundation, OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- 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
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- A bumper crop of new mashup platformsMashup - yet another useless buzzwordThe concept of allowing users to munge data together however they like is fatally flawed. Remember that old buzzword "business integration"? It was supposed to allow companies to create data warehouses that users could access and combine...
- Tags: mashup, OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Mass. switch to OpenDoc illegal, charges state Sen.
- The Massachusetts state senate is pressuring Gov. Mitt Romney's administration to postpone its big switch to Open Document Format, the Boston Globe reports. Accusing former adminstration officials of cramming the changeover down employees' throats, state Sen. Marc R. Pacheco issued a committee report that found officials" did not pursue this...
- Tags: Finance Secretary Eric Kriss, Secretary Eric Kriss
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"ComplianceThe real "rubber hits the road" issue is compliance testing. With both camps positioning themselves to become Governmental purchasing requirements, they're going to eventually run into the issue of validation suites.A good example is [url=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/]the W3C's CSS Validator.[/url]One problem...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), IBM Corp., OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
- Have mud. Will sling.According to ZDNet UK's Ingrid Marson, Microsoft is saying that the OpenDocument format is too slow: "The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory," Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about certification
- OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about certificationLike I said beforeODF should be used for documents like IGES is used for CAD.Every CAD system out there can convert or read a file that is in IGES format. ODF should exist for that same purpose. You shouldn't be forced to work in ODF but...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, native Office format, OpenDoc, OpenDocument Format, standards, XML
- Discussion threads 2006-04-20
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?Time is on their side...All that needs to be done is slow it down enough their XML format becomes a "standard" before ODF.Microsoft will not be able to do anything nasty here, All eyes are watchingthem. Being part of the process will help...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, ODx
- Discussion threads 2006-03-27
- Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
- Microsoft has joined the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, which plays a key role in the ratifying the OpenDocument format as an international standard, according to Ingrid Marson's report on ZDNet. Groklaw's Pamela Jones speculated that Microsoft's intentions may not be pure--the wolf in the hen house--and the company would like to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., INCITS/V1 Technical Committee, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Saving government docs with OpenDoc
- Here's the problem. Government agencies create documents in commercial software. Commercial software saves documents in proprietary formats. Proprietary formats either require specific, often expensive software, to open them, or increasingly likely over time, become extremely difficult to read at all. The Times reports on a brewing battle over the...
- Tags: OpenDoc, OPENXML
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Massachusetts' Quinn, who brought OpenDoc to the state, steps down.
- Peter Quinn is stepping down. Quinn is Massachusetts' tech adviser, who recommended the state standardize on OpenDoc and reject Microsoft formats if the software giant would not support the standard. He's quitting because, it was "readily apparent that I have become a lightning rod with regard to any IT initiative,"...
- Tags: Peter Quinn
- Blog posts 2005-12-28
- Massachusetts' Quinn, who brought OpenDoc to the state, steps down.
- Massachusetts' Quinn, who brought OpenDoc to the state, steps down.ToucheLooks like the whole character assassination plan is backfiring and the fallout will help, whether than hinder the ODF cause. Quinn's become a martyr. the resignation will spotlight the underhanded and corrupt tactics used by "big money"...
- Tags: Quinn, OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2005-12-28
- Microsoft's standardization move divides experts
- Microsoft's standardization move divides expertsAnyone Surprise By Mr. BarnettAll one has to do is check out his company's web site @http://www.ovum.com/about/clients/To realize M$ is missing. Typical dribble from M$ haters. I'm sure Gary made the same comment about M$ CLI submission as a standard to ECMA almost four...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Strategy, Rep, Microsoft Corp., OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2005-11-22
- OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out'
- OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out'Self-important bunkAn office file format will NOT change the world, whether it's ODF or Metro or PDF. The format in which the data is saved does not alter how people do thier work. It may facilitate collaboration, and may even show some productivity...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDoc, OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-05
- Taking a page from Microsoft, citizens group bashes Mass.'s OpenDoc plan
- Citizens Against Government Waste, a right-leaning group founded by Peter Grace of Grace Commission fame and former columnist Jack Anderson, issued a press release Wednesday bashing Massachusetts' plan to move to the OpenDoc format. In language sounding very similar to Microsoft's the group charged: "It is...
- Tags: OpenDoc
- Blog posts 2005-09-22
- Carr gives Microsoft a taste of its own OpenDoc medicine (and I pile on)
- Carr gives Microsoft a taste of its own OpenDoc medicine and I pile onNice work DaveI'm glad that you put two and two together so succinctly. M$ stops with the hard sell and golly-gee-batman, they start losing. How will M$ adjust their strategy to this? Maybe if they sent some...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, IRM, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
- Carr gives Microsoft a taste of its own OpenDoc medicine (and I pile on)
- Nicholas Carr, the Harvard Business School professor who posited that IT doesn't matter in his book Does IT Matter?, has, in his most recent blog, sided with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in its decision to phase out office applications from Microsoft and other providers in favor of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Nicholas Carr
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- More chatter on Massachusetts' OpenDoc plan
- David Coursey at eWeek wrote a Microsoft-friendly response to Massachusetts' decision to standardize on the OpenDoc format. And the response to his response has been both sympathetic and bewildered. The gist of Coursey's argument is this: "I am not sure what the...
- Tags: Simon Phipps, David Coursey, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
- The Dan & David Show: Microsoft Dynamics, CRM dramatics, an OpenDoc rant and introducing 'Vistulations'
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we go over the news of the week, including Google's hiring of Vint Cerf and the Apple/Motorola iTunes phone. We drill down on my visit to the Microsoft campus to hear from Bill and Steve all about the new focus...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., David Show, CRM
- Blog posts 2005-09-08
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