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Information Technology News Massachusetts backs down on Office Open XML ban
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 03 August 2007 | |
  
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"The ETRM articulates a vision of a Service Oriented Architecture where information can be shared, re-used and re-purposed based on XML technologies. Document formats play a part in this vision by serving as containers for the information rather than being the end goal," he added. "The availability of open, standardized XML document formats without vendor bias will move us further along in realizing this vision." Although OOXML is a Microsoft-specific format, it has been approved as a standard by ECMA and is under consideration by the ISO. ODF is supervised by the OASIS consortium and backed by companies including Adobe, IBM, Intel, Novell and Sun, and has already been approved as an ISO and IEC standard. Novell has created an OOXML translator for its version of OpenOffice, while Microsoft sponsored an open source project developing an Office add-in to translate ODF documents. |
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