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EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
News The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups. According to sources familiar with the issue, Microsoft's drive to get its own file formats...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback What do you expect. The EC can't be decisive, people might just get the idea that they are a useful body. No they best wait and see if Microsoft catch up and then ratify their format (I can't imagine that they are an organisation that knows what...
[May 9, 2006, 12:13]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback Apparently the EC is willing to spout about open standards, but lack the spine to actually "walk the talk". I'll applaud the move by the state govt in Massachusetts in the US to mandate ODF, and even testing a plugin to MS-Office that allows it to...
[May 9, 2006, 14:12]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback Microsoft just paid (23-06-2006) the renewal fee for their "OpenXML" patent. It should be important for the Commission to know how MS intends to use this patent if it gets granted. EP1271339 - Method for generic object oriented description of...
[July 2, 2006, 15:53]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback The problem is ISO standards accept patents and restrictions of use that come with it. If MS format is ratified, it will forbid concurrent office suites (OOo, Staroffice, Koffice, Gnome office.to use this format.
[May 9, 2006, 17:00]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback One standard is still pending, is backed by a single company with a long history of wanting to control the industry, and doesn't yet have a working implementation. The other standard is already approved, has the backing of a large group of...
[May 9, 2006, 17:49]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback The EC is clueless. Where there's one there are always more to follow. One standard will become two, then four, eight and so on. Or does the EC think that standards are frozen in time to be used in all eternity?
[May 9, 2006, 23:15]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback The EC couldn't be wiser. It should be "concerned that a second ISO standard will emerge later', and it should "urge industry players .to aim for one single format. With this in mind, the EC should immediately endorse the ODF format and tell...
[May 28, 2006, 11:23]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback The XML schema may be open, but from what I've heard the file format it's wrapped up in is as proprietry is they come. You may be able to handle the schema, but if you can't access the container it's completely useless.
[May 9, 2006, 21:29]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback What a shower. They alledgely stand up big and tall by making M$ unbundle WMP but then lie back and let M$ play silly beggars with a universal format. Government is already admiting that they can not archive documents (thanks to M$ changing again...
[May 9, 2006, 19:04]
Adobe Targets Reluctant PageMaker Migrators
News Adobe Systems is set to unveil a conversion strategy on Monday for customers still using its orphaned PageMaker page design and layout application. It has been more than two years since Adobe last updated PageMaker, meaning the application has yet...
[January 5, 2004, 8:10]
View From A V21 (and Now Reluctant Biscit) Customer.
Talkback I'm finding all this rather rich coming from a company who has so far refused to reply to all contact attempts from customers wishing to migrate. I signed up with V21 three years ago, and have been rather patient with them even tho they have had...
[December 5, 2006, 21:41]
Oracle Courts Reluctant PeopleSoft
News NEWS: Ellison unsure on next move in PeopleSoft battle Mon 7 July Oracle's chairman says he does not know if he will increase his company's hostile takeover bid Deadline extended for selling PeopleSoft shares
[June 23, 2003, 12:23]
Eric Raymond, Reluctant Star, May Visit London
News Raymond, who once organised a meeting for Linux technical enthusiasts at a firing range with the title: "Geeks with guns" said that all that remains is for someone to invite him over. Raymond seemed slightly perplexed by the growing celebrity...
[February 4, 2000, 10:51]
Connectix Aids Microsoft's Migration Plan
News A deal signed on Wednesday could help Microsoft tackle a long-standing problem: How to sell new software to customers reluctant to give up a 7-year-old version of Windows. Microsoft is getting push-back from (Windows NT 4) customers reluctant to...
[February 21, 2003, 9:31]
Is The Age Of The Password Over?
Talkback The banks may be reluctant to hand out hardware to make things more secure but I am also reluctant as a user. If I want to check my account online at work and at home I will need to carry these things around with me and they may get lost or damaged...
[March 1, 2005, 11:44]
Open Source Projects: Why It Pays To Keep Quiet
News Large companies and analysts that work with open source are fond of talking about vendor "sensitivity" when they are explaining why some customers are reluctant to go public about migrations away from proprietary software.
[November 25, 2005, 14:15]
MPs Reveal How To Save £100m On Microsoft Licences
News Key to this has been hard bargaining with a reluctant Microsoft and a willingness to consider open-source alternatives, says the group. Although the OGC clearly said it receives discounts from Microsoft, and indeed expects the next "discount...
[February 27, 2004, 11:05]
New Pentium 4-Rambus Chipset On Way
News Although it provides a performance boost, RDRAM is also more expensive than regular memory, making customers reluctant to embrace it. Corporate buyers have been reluctant to embrace RDAM because, as with all new technologies, "they want to see it...
[August 31, 2001, 9:05]
