Gary Edwards, President of the OpenDocument Foundation is featured on
the ITConversations podcast network.
Customers are now implementing solutions based upon the OASIS
OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's OpenXML standard, endorsed
by ECMA, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Billions of word
processing and spreadsheet files are being converted to XML in one of
these two formats. OpenDocument expert Gary Edwards believes that
adopting OpenXML means lock-in to Microsoft products on an
unprecedented scale. In this podcast, Edwards defends OpenDocument's
capabilities but also challenges the ODF community to out-innovate
Microsoft to provide a competitive alternative to Microsoft's lock-in.
He also challenges the open standards community to focus on delivering
alternatives to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint servers. Edwards
also describes Open Document Foundation's da Vinci plug-ins for
Microsoft Office.
Enjoy
http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1810.html
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