ISO Credibility
Talkback Think about why it is that both Ecma and OASIS sought to have their format proposals approved by ISO? What's wrong with Ecma and OASIS? What do ISO and the W3C have that Ecma and OASIS do not? The answer is that both Ecma and OASIS are vendor...
[March 4, 2008, 8:30]
One Man Linux Band Aims To Write 500,000 Lines Of Code
News Portable.NET is designed to run on a variety of operating system platforms -- GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, PDAs -- whereas Microsoft only caters for Windows, and its main focus is to build a runtime engine, C# compiler, and C# system...
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
Mono Seeks To Open Up .Net
News Has Microsoft been regularly submitting updates to .Net to Ecma? All of the core pieces that they did for 1.0, they've been submitting to Ecma in advance (for .Net 2.0). To de Icaza, replicating Microsoft's hard work -- much of which has been...
[July 16, 2004, 14:25]
Actually MS Office 2007 Complies With Official Ecma Standard
Talkback Currently there is only one official open standard version of OOXML and that is the Ecma 376 standard.http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm Soon there might be a new version of ISO OOXML and that is then likely to...
[February 28, 2008, 17:43]
Standards Expert Defends OOXML Fast-track Bid
News Office Open XML (OOXML) was approved by Ecma in December 2006. Jan van den Beld, the former secretary general of European standards organisation Ecma International, said the fast-track process was necessary to ensure proposed standards are not...
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
WaSP Looks To Order Scripted Chaos
News Scripting languages like JavaScript, Microsoft's JScript and ECMA's ECMAScript (which combines elements of the two) perform actions on Web pages independently, for example opening pop-up windows or flashing prompts to visitors.
[July 19, 2005, 17:25]
Proprietary Past Looms Over Microsoft OOXML Hopes
News While OOXML is already an Ecma worldwide standard, an ISO approval is considered to be the final word on the status of a format, and the prolonged anticipation over the outcome the vote has generated heated debate both for and against Microsoft's...
[February 28, 2008, 15:27]
US Report: Sun Says HP Walks 'funny Line' With Java
News Officials at Intel which is optimising HP's Virtual Machine for its embedded Pentium chips, said the ISO, ANSI, IEEE and ECMA would all be appropriate standards bodies because they have open membership and allow full participation by all members.
[May 19, 1998, 11:19]
Microsoft .Net To Support Linux
News Microsoft has formally submitted the specifications for C# and the CLI to ECMA, a standards organisation committed to driving industry-wide adoption of information and communications technologies. But Scoble was not buying this for a moment, saying...
[June 27, 2001, 14:59]
Fun And Games With OOXML
Blog Ecma and OASIS are "international standards", but ISO is the international "Gold Standard". After the BRM [Ballot Resolution Meeting - in February 2008] there may be changes to it, so it is risky, and may not make commercial sense to implement...
[September 13, 2007, 9:31]
Hull To Host First .Net Masters Degree
News The CLI is the European Computer Manufacturer Association (ECMA) standard that describes the core of the .Net framework. We have three at the moment and this will be the fourth. In September 2003 a group of 40 students at the University of Hull...
[December 11, 2002, 17:27]
