__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:53 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Sun's McNealy Calls for Merger of OASIS/ISO's ODF and China's UOF
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>>| But the conference is also timely in that McNealy took a meaningful
>>| amount of time during his presentation to note that there are (in his
>>| words) three main document formats in existence today: Microsoft Office,
>>| Open Document Format (ODF) and China's Uniform Office Format (UOF). And
>>| he also called for the last two to be merged.
>> `----
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070417025728436
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> He's quite right about this. I don't truly understand why the Chinese
> decided to invent their own, here, but it does seem to dilute the effort
> of ODF somewhat. Microsoft will hang on to their vertically-locked
> format for as long as they can squeeze their last customer for upgrade
> cash.
Outside the US, their fight is a lost cause, despite all the lobbying. Watch
them lose a lot of market share. The cash cow is getting leaner.
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