Here's the problem. Government agencies create documents in commercial software. Commercial software saves documents in proprietary formats. Proprietary formats either require specific, often ...

At the annual gathering of international open-standards software group the OpenDoc Society in Paris late last year, Dutch government IT professionals presented what they see as a long-standing ...

Microsoft said this week it has started an open-source project on the SourceForge collaborative software development management site to create free translators that can transform Office Open XML ...

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While IBM has previously endorsed the OpenDocument standard, this week it decided to put its money where its public relations message resides and announced that the next version of its Workplace ...

IBM last week admitted that its commitment to the OpenDoc object model is weakening in favour of Sun's Internet-friendly object model for Java. Speaking at a press conference at China Computerworld ...

IBM has released another beta version of OpenDoc with improved cross-platform development support for Windows 95 and Windows NT - believed to be a key capability if the IBM-backed component ...

News ISO: OpenDoc Ratified as Standard By Stuart J. Johnston 05/11/2006 In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified ...

Standards body Object Management Group (OMG) has issued a request for technology to fill the gap left by the failed IBM-backed Opendoc initiative. The technology for component-based development, when ...

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aoeu posted:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>As i understand it, the basic, fundamental, flaw of OpenDoc was that it expected ...