Re: Sun Is Losing Its Way

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Yeah... Maybe they can make it not crash for reasonable sized files... That
would be compliant..
-Andy

Scott Sanders wrote:

Just like the news had Office 10, 9, 8, and 7 will all these XML
compliance features?

Office 11 will be closer than anything before, but I might be inclined
to drop java if what they see is the same as what they do :)

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:05 PM
To: 'Jakarta General List'
Subject: RE: Sun Is Losing Its Way


Did you guys see in the news that Office 11 will have standard compliant XML schemas for Word and Excel files??? --DD

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:57 PM
To: Jakarta General List
Subject: Re: Sun Is Losing Its Way

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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I don't really want or need to see Microsoft's code. What I

would like

to see is their file formats, protocols and APIs being documented
so that other developers, open-source or otherwise, can

interoperate and

compete with their products
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I agree!!

We're working on it, we're working on it... (
1. http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/fileformat.html
2. http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/chart.html
3. http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf
)
Maybe you should lend us a hand.

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