“In this third in-depth interview focusing on ODF-compliant office productivity suites, I interviewed Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun’s Product Marketing Manager, Client Systems Group. This series of interviews, and the other activities I have planned to follow, are intended to illustrate the rich environment of applications and tools that are evolving around the OpenDocument Format specification developed by OASIS, and now adopted by ISO/IEC.”
…to see the comments that ODF is anti-competitive and is unreasonably favoring non-MS offerings. Nevermind that MS is free to implement ODF in MS Office without incurring any royalty charges or burdensome IP encumbrance, just like everybody else.
I guess it will take a while before people wrap their heads around the idea that .doc, .xls, .ppt, .mdb are not the end all, be all of document formats. Plus that they are not open, nor suited for platform independent information interchange and not viable as a longterm archival format.
Also reminding these people that even newer versions of MS Office can’t import older files well.
…to see the comments that ODF is anti-competitive and is unreasonably favoring non-MS offerings. Nevermind that MS is free to implement ODF in MS Office without incurring any royalty charges or burdensome IP encumbrance, just like everybody else.
Anything that offers customers choice is generally unreasonably favoring towards non-MS offerings, so I guess in that light it would be somewhat anti-competitive in their perspective.
But we’ll probably just see an ambiguous press release stating they’ve decided against ODF support in Office because they’re expecting legal action from OASIS any day now. D’oh!
WTF does StarOffice have to do with operating system news?
WTF does StarOffice have to do with operating system news?
What good is an OS without something useful to run upon it. Does that hint at the answer to your question?
No, it doesn’t. For that… I’ll tune in to AppNews.com.