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Skriven 2005-05-24 22:14:30 av Antti Kurenniemi (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Death of Office?
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From: "Antti Kurenniemi" <NOantti@SPAManttikPLEASE.com>

Ha ha ha. Muhaha, I might add. IBM & Sun Microsystems, now there's a pair that
makes me want to touch this shit with a ten feet pole... not.


Antti Kurenniemi
(I had the "pleasure" of working with AIX for the past two years, and now I
have an IBM laptop - I never want to have anything to with anything from IBM
ever again, and without any knowledge of Sun I firmly believe to know that
they're just as bad in every respect <g but somewhat serious in a
tongue-in-cheek way>)

"Adam Flinton" <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com> wrote in message
news:42937779$1@w3.nls.net...
> http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.052305/251435231
>
> "Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard; IBM, Sun Microsystems,
> and Others Develop Royalty-Free Standard for Office Applications Document
> Format
>
>     Business Editors
>
>     BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2005--OASIS, the international
> e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have
> approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
> v1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of
> ratification. OpenDocument provides a royalty-free, XML-based file format
> that covers features required by text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical
> documents.
>     "XML doesn't always mean open. You can hide a lot in a file format.
> OpenDocument represents an opportunity to ensure truly open file formats
> for productivity applications, which is why it will receive the
> enthusiastic support of public sector steering organizations on a global
> basis," commented James Governor, principal analyst at RedMonk. "The
> participation of enterprises in vertical industries, such as aerospace,
> will also ensure adoption in the private sector. One key to success will
> be the royalty free status of the spec; there are no financial penalties
> associated with developing to it."
>     "Office productivity applications and the documents they create are
> key to today's knowledge economy. Information critical to the long term
> functioning of any organization is stored in the spreadsheets,
> presentations, and text documents its employees create," said Michael
> Brauer of Sun Microsystems, chair of the OASIS OpenDocument Technical
> Committee. "Today, for the first time in the 25-year history of office
> applications, such documents can be stored in an open, standardized, and
> vendor-independent format."
>     OpenDocument provides a single XML schema for text, spreadsheets,
> charts, and graphical documents. It makes use of existing standards, such
> as HTML, SVG, XSL, SMIL, XLink, XForms, MathML, and the Dublin Core,
> wherever possible. OpenDocument has been designed as a package concept,
> enabling it to be used as a default file format for office applications
> with no increase in file size or loss of data integrity."
>
>
> Adam

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