__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 15 March 2007 16:33 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft offers Architects a view
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>>| Oh, and Nick McGrath (director of platform strategy at Microsoft Ltd)
>>| wants us all to petition our local standards body (BSI) to support
>>| the ratification of Ecma Open XML as an ISO standard (a pleading
>>| letter was included in the conference pack). "The issue should be
>>| technical, not political," he says. Really? Since when was
>>| standards-making not political, in part at least? Why do you
>>| think that the (mostly excellent) OMG UML 2.0 standard has
>>| redundancies in it, if not to keep participating vendors happy?
>>|
>>| No, the real issue with standards is the follow-on availability
>>| of cheap, effective interoperability testing suites. I don't
>>| really see why we can't have overlapping standards, where Open
>>| XML, say, supports conversion from legacy Microsoft Office
>>| document formats into something more open, and ODF supports
>>| a simple universal (but less rich) document format for everybody
>>| else to use.
>> `----
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>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/microsoft_architect_insight/
>>
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> Cool - the folks at the Reg have it spot on!
Despite the fact that they are on the Microsoft shilling. See the search bar.
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