Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft offers Architects a view
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.
> `----
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/microsoft_architect_insight/
>
Cool - the folks at the Reg have it spot on!
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