IT industry divided over open source
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| On the other hand, IBM counters HCL on the argument. “Microsoft’s Open XML
| does not support Firefox and Opera (web browsers) despite firefox having a
| 34% market share. It only supports Internet Explorer. Also, OOXML does not
| support documents dated before 1900 but India has land records dating back to
| 1600 A.D. since the era of King Todar Mal. (The problems is that OOXML does
| not recognise dates prior to 1900 AD). Also, there is no provision for
| backward compatibility as it does not provide access to binary codes,” says
| Ashish Gautam, country leader at IBM for open standards.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/IT_industry_divided_over_open_source/articleshow/2286529.cms
Cartoon on OOXML:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/2007/08/15/mssa4.jpg
Office Open XML (OOXML) Filters
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| How far have we got with the development of OOXML filters? First of all,
| Sun's OpenOffice.org developers are only working on import filters, that is,
| filters that read OOXML documents into OpenOffice.org. We are not working on
| export filters, that is, filters that save OOXML documents. Simple reason is
| that the both situations I've described above only require OOXML import
| filters. For saving documents, we have ODF.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/office_open_xml_ooxml_filters
Related:
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
|
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
The ODF vs. OOXML numbers. Hint, OOXML is doing poorly.
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| Ben Langhinrichs’ has some interesting stats via Google on the relative
| number of ODF vs. OOXML documents on the web. His numbers show that there are
| 162,700 ODF documents vs. 1993 OOXML documents, and 26% of the OOXML
| documents are on microsoft.com.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1794
[OOXML:] e to the power of hype
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| Exponential growth is quite a claim. But what is the evidence? Microsoft
| provides this chart further down on the page, showing the growth in
| their "community":
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/e-to-power-of-hype.html
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