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Document Wars
8 members,364 bookmarks
Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili
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OpenDocument
21 members,377 bookmarks
A collection of comments and discussions concerning OpenDocument and the challenge presented by Microsoft's Office Open XML.
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Saved by 1 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-02-06
- Garyedwards on 2008-02-06 - Tags IBM , OASIS , cdf , interop , odf , ooxml , opendocument , openxml
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In late 2007, an article by OASIS attorney Andy Updegrove claimed that W3C Compound Document Formats: [i] are non-editable formats; [ii] are not designed for conversions to other formats; and [iii] are therefore unsuitable as office formats. Updegrove could not have been more wrong.
But unfortunately, the erroneous Updegrove article was widely publicized by the usual occupants of the IBM cheering section (1) in the stadium where the latest big vendor game for the Incompatible File Format Cup is being played, IFFC Games Stadium.
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