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The better MSOffice alternative is the most compatible: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org

Article discussing the importance of office suite alternatives having a high level of comaptibility with MSOffice, the MSOffice binary formats, and the MSOffice productivity environment. ComputerWorld's Randall Kennedy has done exhaustive work comparing the conversion quality of MSOffice documents from two alternative office suites: Softmaker Office and OpenOffice.

Tags: OpenOffice, Softmaker-Office, MSOffice, compatibility, interoperability on 2009-06-30 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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ODF and OOXML must converge!! AFNOR, the French Standards Body, announces proposals for revisable office document formats

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Linux News: Software: OpenDocument Foundation Abandons Namesake Format - Katherine Noyes

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Wizard of ODF: Interoperability barriers and the List Proposal Vote Deadline on Wednesday

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Denmark: OOXML vote won't affect public sector. ODF is too costly! | InfoWorld

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ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML - zdnet Mary Jo

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The OpenDocument Foundation breaks with OpenOffice ODF: Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats [LWN.net] - Gly Moody

Good article from Glynn Moody explaining the OpenDocument Foundation's decision to drop OpenOffice ODF for HTML+. That date of this article is November 13th, 2007. The Foundations announcement comes after ISO members vote down OpenXML as an ISO standard. Microsoft however does not give up. They come back to ISO by responding in detail to every objection, pushing for a February 2008 BRM. Following the BRM, and contingent on Microsoft's promise to fix OpenXML, join the OASIS OpenOffice ODF work, and, support ODF 1.1 in MSOffice using a plug-in, ISO votes again. In March of 2008, ISO approves OpenXML.

In May of 2009, Microsoft releases an MSOffice plug-in fully compliant with ODF 1.1 (ISO 26300). Although conforming to and in full compliance with ODF 1.1, the world is shocked to learn that the interop between MSOffice ODF and OpenOffice ODF is worthless. Which is exactly what the Foundation had been arguing for years. ODF "compatibility, interop and compliance" had to be fixed prior to Microsoft's expected implementation!!!!! Otherwise, ODF would be shredded.

Told you so!

Tags: cdf, foundation, glyn, moody, odf, ooxml, opendocument, sharepoint, html+, html5, css3, interoperability on 2009-06-04 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Phantom Proposals

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Will The Dollar Standard Collapse?

The Dollar Crisis

Quick Synopsis:

    * Abandoning the gold standard in 1971 has resulted in large global trade imbalances and a massive buildup of foreign currency reserves
    * These trade imbalances and buildup of foreign reserves have resulted in frequent booms and busts since 1971
    * The Japanese bust of 1989, the Asian economic crisis of 1997, and the current US credit market collapse have resulted from the post-1971 paper money monetary system
    * Abandoning the gold standard has gradually resulted in a very overvalued US dollar, and that the dollar is headed for disaster
    *  “The dollar standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st century.”

Tags: financial-crisis, obama-socialism, inflation, dollar-destruction on 2009-05-19 -All Annotations (3) -About

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Could Adobe be open-sourcing Flash? - Computerworld Blogs

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Hyprocrisy 101 | Jesper Lundstocholm "A Mooh Point"

Great post exposing the sanctimonious bag of blather Rob Weir. Jesper calls out Rob Weir, exposing the deceitful tactics Wier uses to destroy individuals and corporate competitors, all the while posing as an arrogant and self righteous arbiter of interop and document expertise. This is very funny stuff. Especially where Rob joins in, defending his arrogant bloviating through personal attacks on anyone who might disagree with him. I called him a liar, and i've got mountains of eMails, non-disclosure agreements and meeting notes/schedules to prove it. Facing an avalanche of evidence proving his lack of candor, and inspite of ethics challenge that has become synonymous with his name, Rob soldiers on with even more slander, lies and inuendo. Very funny

Tags: w3c, odf, ooxml, cdf, ibm, opendocument, weir, rob-weir, mooh-point, jesper, hyposcrisy on 2009-05-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: Interoperability and The Quest For A Universal File Format

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What Oracle Sees in Sun Microsystems | NewsFactor Network

Good article from Aaron Ricadela. The focus is on Java, Sun's hardware-Server business, and Oracle's business objectives. No mention of OpenOffice or ODf though. There is however an interesting quote from IBM regarding the battle between Java and Microsoft .NET. Also, no mention of a OpenOffice-Java Foundation that would truly open source these technologies.
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When we were involved with the Massachusetts Pilot Study and ODF Plug-in proposals, IBM and Oracle lead the effort to open source the da Vinci plug-in. They put together a group of vendors known as "the benefactors", with the objective of completing work on da Vinci while forming a patent pool - open source foundation for all OpenOffice and da Vinci source. This idea was based on the Eclipse model.<br><br>

One of the more interesting ideas coming out of the IBM-Oracle led "benefactors", was the idea of breaking OpenOffice into components that could then be re-purposed by the Eclipse community of developers. The da Vinci plug-in was to be the integration bridge between Eclipse and the Microsoft Office productivity environment. Very cool. And no doubt IBM and Oracle were in synch on this in 2006. The problem was that they couldn't convince Sun to go along with the plan.
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Sun of course owned both Java and OpenOffice, and thought they could build a better ODF plug-in for OpenOffice (and own that too). A year later, Sun actually did produce an ODF plug-in for MSOffice. It was sent to Massachusetts on July 3rd, 2007, and tested against the same set of 150 critical documents da Vinci had to successfully convert without breaking. The next day, July 4th, Massachusetts announced their decision that they would approve the use of both ODF and OOXML! The much hoped for exclusive ODF requirement failed in Massachusetts exactly because Sun insisted on their way or the highway. <br><br>

Let's hope Oracle can right the ship and get OpenOffice-ODF-Java back on track.
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<i>"......To gain Sun's software assets, Oracle also has to take

Tags: openoffice, java, sun, oracle, ibm, da-vinci, massachusetts on 2009-04-29 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Groklaw - Digging for Truth : The problem with XML document formats

Jesper Lund Stocholm was kind enough to point out that, once again, GrokLaw is stoking the fires of the XML document wars. This time PJ takes on Alex Brown, of the ISO SC34 document standards group convenor. And Alex responds ... and responds ... and responds. of course, the attacks keep coming!\n\nI left Jesper a rather lengthy comment at: <a href'="http://tinyurl.com/document-wars">Document Wars</a>

Tags: odf, ooxml, html+, webkit, groklaw, alex-brown, document-wars on 2009-04-20 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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Silicon Valley Veteran Bill Coleman on The Business Of Disruption . . .

Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher interviews Bill Coleman of VisiCorp-Sun-BEA fame with questions about the economy and disruptive technologies. Coleman references noted business guru Peter Drucker when he claims that a platform ill be successful if it has three characteristics. First, it has to be able to commoditize a market. Secondly, it has to obey the 10x better/cheaper rule - providing at least ten times the value of what it's displacing. And thirdly, a platform must allow you to add value with custom additions.<br><br>

In the interview, Coleman backs up his assertions with bullseye examples. Clearly his passion is for Cloud Computing, especially the next generation. <br><br>

......"As the cloud computing platform becomes more sophisticated, he predicts that there will be an acceleration in the use of the cloud driven by a "quadruple conversion." Video, audio, and IT data all become IP based, and productivity applications become integrated with social networks.<br><br>

"As we move forward from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, all your productivity tools become integrated with your social networking, which becomes your business networking. Your mobile life and your online life will become the same. So now the client moves into the cloud and that's when we'll see a dramatic change in the cost structure of computing and of the capabilities you can have."....<br><br>

Good interview. I hope Tom publishes the rest of the session soon.

Tags: Tom-foremski, bill-coleman, Cloud-Computing, disruptive-technologies on 2009-03-22 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Open Documents Standards Proposed in Texas Legislature | The Cowtown Chronicles

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The Open Web: Next-Generation Standards Support in WebKit/ Safari

Apple has posted an interesting page describing Safari technologies. Innovations and support for existing standards as well as the ACID3 test are covered. <br><br>

Many people think that the Apple WebKit-Safari-iPhone innovations are pushing Open Web Standards beyond beyond the limits of "Open", and deep into the verboten realm of vendor specific extensions. Others, myself included, believe that the WebKit community has to do this if Open Web technologies are to be anyway competitive with Microsoft's RiA (XAML-Silverlight-WPF). <br><br>

Adobe RiA (AiR-Flex-Flash) is also an alternative to WebKit and Microsoft RiA; kind of half Open Web, half proprietary though. Adobe Flash is of course proprietary. While Adobe AiR implements the WebKit layout engine and visual document model. I suspect that as Adobe RiA loses ground to Microsoft Silverlight, they will open up Flash. But that's not something the Open Web can afford to wait for.<br><br>

In many ways, WebKit is at the cutting edge of Ajax Open Web technologies. The problems of Ajax not scaling well are being solved as shared JavaScript libraries continue to amaze, and the JavaScript engines roar with horsepower. Innovations in WebKit, even the vendor-device specific ones, are being picked up by the JS Libraries, Firefox, and the other Open Web browsers. <br><br>

At the end of the day though, it is the balance between the ACiD3 test on one side and the incredible market surge of WebKit smartphones, countertops, and netbook devices at the edge of the Web that seem to hold things together. <br><br>

The surge at the edge is washing back over the greater Web, as cross-browser frustrated Web designers and developers roll out the iPhone welcome. Let's hope the ACiD3 test holds. So far it's proving to be a far more important consideration for maintaining Open Web interop, without sacrificing innovation, than anything going on at the stalled W3C.<br<br>

"..... Safari continues to lead the way, implementing the latest innovative web standards and enabling

Tags: webkit, safari, acid3, open-web, interoperability on 2009-03-19 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (14) -About

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Microsoft's Next Big Thing - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

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Microsoft, Google Search and the Future of the Open Web - Google Docs

Response to the InformationWeek article "Remaking Microsoft: Get Out of Web Search!". Covers "The Myth of Google Enterprise Search", and the refusal of Google to implement or recognize W3C Semantic Web technologies. This refusal protects Google's proprietary search and categorization algorithms, but it opens the door wide for Microsoft Office editors to totally exploit the end-user semantic interface opportunities. If Microsoft can pull this off, they will take "search" to the Enterprise and beyond into every high end discipline using MSOffice to edit Web ready documents (private and public use). Also a bit about WebKit as the most disruptive technology Microsoft has faced since the advent of the Web.

Tags: webkit, microsoft, google, search, Cloud-Computing, monopoly, ge on 2009-03-17 -All Annotations (1) -About

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