On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:29 -0500, Chuck wrote: > No matter how you spin it, there are at least a thousand times more > documents in MS formats than in open document formats. In 28 years of > working in I.T, I've never once had anyone request a document be sent to > them in ODF.
Then you are not trying hard enough :-) I just took on a consultant who is older than me and now he sends me everything in ODF. I just gave him an OOo20 disc. I get ODF attachments from a few people, certainly a lot more than I get in MOOX format ;-) > Every (and I mean every) request I've ever had was to have > it sent in either Microsoft, rtf, or csv format. You obviously move in the wrong circles ;-) > That's not to say that open document isn't better (I happen to think it > is). It's just to say what the article says. Open document format has no > where near the acceptance (yet) of the various MS formats. Not of .doc certaily but marketing is all about playing up strengths and playing down weaknesses. Hadn't you noticed MS do it? So does any serious salesman. > I think that at least in the near future it may replace rtf and csv as a > portable format. If it ever replaces .doc or .xls it will be a long time > from now and only if enough commercial (read "formally supported") > applications embrace it. You mean like Star Office, IBM Workplace etc? I thnk this is becoming an increasingly dated view. Granted it will take time, but that time will be shorter if ODF advocates promote confidence in it. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
