Why is the Burton Group Quiet ?
Category Management Open Source
In January, The Burton Group released their analysis which strongly favored OOXML over ODF. It caught many people by surprise, and had me re-thinking many assumptions which I had taken at face value. Now, Stuart McKee, a Microsoft national technology officer, has announced that "ODF has clearly won."
The pronouncement couldn't have been presented at a more non-Microsoft venue: the Red Hat Summit Panel. It's big enough news to be slashdotted and has yet to be adjusted or re-spun by Microsoft (it would be naive to expect this statement to linger in cyberspace without some sort of official Microsoft softening).
It appears that the statement is real, valid, and is going to stick. Peter O'Kelly points out the Stuart is a "person of profiled authority to speak about public administrations."
So, I'd really like to know what The Burton Group is going to say about OOXML, today?
Technorati Tags: ODF, OOXML
In January, The Burton Group released their analysis which strongly favored OOXML over ODF. It caught many people by surprise, and had me re-thinking many assumptions which I had taken at face value. Now, Stuart McKee, a Microsoft national technology officer, has announced that "ODF has clearly won."
The pronouncement couldn't have been presented at a more non-Microsoft venue: the Red Hat Summit Panel. It's big enough news to be slashdotted and has yet to be adjusted or re-spun by Microsoft (it would be naive to expect this statement to linger in cyberspace without some sort of official Microsoft softening).
It appears that the statement is real, valid, and is going to stick. Peter O'Kelly points out the Stuart is a "person of profiled authority to speak about public administrations."
So, I'd really like to know what The Burton Group is going to say about OOXML, today?
Technorati Tags: ODF, OOXML
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Posted by Peter O'Kelly At 08:49:58 PM On 06/25/2008 | - Website - |