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OpenDocument has been ratified by member organizations, including IBM and Sun Microsystems to endorse a standard Office Document format that is vendor independant and cross platform compatible.

“Office productivity applications and the documents they create are key to today’s knowledge economy. Information critical to the long term functioning of any organization is stored in the spreadsheets, presentations, and text documents its employees create,” said Michael Brauer of Sun Microsystems, chair of the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee. “Today, for the first time in the 25-year history of office applications, such documents can be stored in an open, standardized, and vendor-independent format.”

What strikes me is the noticeable absence of Microsoft in the article. It has been no secret that MS refuses to open up it’s file formats and the article seems completely flippant to that. Not even a breath about Microsoft or indication of concern over their file formats.

I say good. Standardization is wonderful. If MS won’t play, then so be it. We’ve already seen what competition does to them. They eventually lose market share. It just takes someone to stand up. The OASIS foundation has. Good for them.

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Written by Aaron Brazell on May 27, 2005

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