Re: [odf-adoption] Demystifying Interoperability from Microsoft

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

One response is that even if you stuck
to an all-Microsoft IT infrastructure, their new OOXML formats have interoperability
problems.  No support on Mac, or Mobile, or in Access, for example.

The define compatibility and interoperability
very strangely when you dig down into it.

See  http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1260

and

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/compatibility-according-to-humpty.html

For more on that line of argument.

-Rob


Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo@gmail.com> wrote
on 04/14/2007 09:40:01 AM:

> > Hi
> 
> This article was sent to me last week and I think my correspondent
 
> has a point.
> 
> >
> > I'm sure you've seen this article in Express Computer (online).
> >
> > http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070402/technology03.shtml
> >
> > It represents the FUD on open source and open standards being
> > communicated in India. This type of rhetoric confuses the  
> > government as
> > well as the market. It points up the need for the stakeholders
in the
> > open source industry in India to coordinate an anti-FUD campaign
> > otherwise we will continue to be swamped by this kind of  
> > misinformation.
> >
> 
> Best,
> Louis
>