On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Deepankar Datta wrote: > Two good reads > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2057 > http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/10/25/galvin_attacks_software_proposal/
Quote from the last article: "Microsoft so far has refused to make its Office software compatible with OpenDocument. The company has attacked Quinn's plan, saying it will impose unnecessary costs on state government." I don't know the source for Microsofts attack where they say implementing the OpenDocument format will impose unnecessary costs. As I see it it is Microsoft who is imposing unnecessary costs on state government. And here is why: Microsoft will impose their own Microsoft Office Open XML Format in Microsoft Office 12 which is planned to be released in 2006. This format will not be under a license that OpenOffice.org can use and therefore Microsoft impose offices who would otherwise use OpenOffice.org to migrate which is a significant cost. If Microsoft chose OpenDocument as one of their supported formats for both reading and writing then the offices using Microsoft Office today could still be using Microsoft Office (the new version 12) so they would not have higher costs than migrating to Microsoft Office 12 only with the Microsoft Office Open XML Format. So as long as Microsoft Office is not supporting the OpenDocument format then Microsoft is imposing unnecessary costs on state government. I hope anyone within OpenOffice.org Marketing know who could rewrite this to correct English and give it to the right sources so it is heard that it is Microsoft who impose - not the choose of OpenDocument - unnecessary costs. The most enjoyable greetings -- Claus Agerskov #=== Analyze OpenOffice.org Content Developer ==== Requirements Project Management Tool [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== Design/model Subproject http://ooo.chbs.dk/ ==== Implement http://oopm.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
