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Doc Format Activities - Open Letters and More

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Today an open letter was posted to the interop site at Microsoft. Yesterday, an open letter was posted from Sun, which I commented on in a blog post yesterday. IBM delivered a new product suite to market in the same market segment. Things are getting interesting.

As for the IBM product - I'd like to reiterate how much the release of the new product offering factors into their stance on Open XML. As for the product they are selling, there are some skeptics as to the value of their offering - read this from Forbes Magazine.

Coverage on the open letter: Galli at eWeek, LaMonica at CNET and ZDnet. I'm sure there will be more.

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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2007
    PingBack from http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/teacher-those-ibm-meanies-are-hurting-me/

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    February 15, 2007
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    February 28, 2007
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    March 04, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Michael - great to hear from you, and thank you for the very thoughtful post. I am in the middle of writing up a large entry on this topic, and you have given me much to think about. Rather than responding down here in the comments, I am going to do 2 things.  First, I am going to copy your comment and post it to the top-level of my blog as it is worth elevating the conversation. As people comment on it, please feel free to respond etc. here. I will be diligent about publishing the incoming comments (I monitor them to block spam). Again, good to hear from you and great posting. Jason

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Here is a comment submitted to an earlier blog posting about doc formats. For those of my readers who

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2007
    Michael/Jason,  Does the NY law (as written) preclude production of documents in PDF format?  By my reading of the snippet enclosed, I believe it might.  Wouldn't that throw a major monkey wrench into the courts system?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2007
    Larry, I have not read the NY submission (remember, none of these are laws, they are only proposed laws) so don't know the answer to that. The original text of the MN bill explicitly said "XML-based" formats. That would exclude them. The thing is, if the governments carve out PDF, then they are simply demonstrating that the legislation is an attempt to single out a solution for use. In other words, a hard procurment preference and that is not healthy. Michael may have more on the NY bill. Jason