Gartner Report Doesn't Pull Punches on ODF
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Volker Vowe has identified a Gartner report on ODF that is bluntly critical of Microsoft's ability to position a competing standard.
ODF opens up opportunities for new products, for example, users could create integrated "composite" documents using text, graphics or spreadsheet elements, without shifting between applications. Applications and suites that support ODF include Google's Writely, IBM Workplace and Sun's StarOffice. By 2010, ODF document exchange will be required by 50 percent of government and 20 percent of commercial organizations (0.7 probability).
The future of Microsoft's proposed Open XML format is unclear. Microsoft only submitted this format for the European Computer Manufacturers Association's (Ecma's) approval in late 2005, after Massachusetts mandated that agencies use ODF for office productivity documents. Until Massachusetts' decision, Microsoft seemed to ignore growing support for ODF. Microsoft plans to
submit its XML format to ISO after Ecma approval. But ISO will not approve multiple XML document formats (0.7 probability).
Volker Vowe has identified a Gartner report on ODF that is bluntly critical of Microsoft's ability to position a competing standard.
ODF opens up opportunities for new products, for example, users could create integrated "composite" documents using text, graphics or spreadsheet elements, without shifting between applications. Applications and suites that support ODF include Google's Writely, IBM Workplace and Sun's StarOffice. By 2010, ODF document exchange will be required by 50 percent of government and 20 percent of commercial organizations (0.7 probability).
The future of Microsoft's proposed Open XML format is unclear. Microsoft only submitted this format for the European Computer Manufacturers Association's (Ecma's) approval in late 2005, after Massachusetts mandated that agencies use ODF for office productivity documents. Until Massachusetts' decision, Microsoft seemed to ignore growing support for ODF. Microsoft plans to
submit its XML format to ISO after Ecma approval. But ISO will not approve multiple XML document formats (0.7 probability).
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