[ubuntu-in] [Fwd: MS, IBM fight to own office docs heats up]]

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Agree with your points.

On 8/10/07, Ravi Kumar <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its really clear that Microsoft never gonna put whole things related to
> OOXML into OpenSource and completely visible to others. The past stories of
> Microsoft has already given many lessons to others.
> For India, it should be a bg matter to decide. IT and computers industries
> in India is growing faster than many others. Adopting MS technologies will
> definitely lead us to constrained environment.
>
> Anyway, there should be a quick vote on a site, where we Indians can put
> our voices and opinion.
>
> On 8/10/07, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > For your kind info
> >
> > (sorry for the cross posting)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ganeshtk [mailto:ganeshtk at isec.ac.in]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:44 AM
> > To: lina
> > Subject: MS, IBM fight to own office docs heats up
> >
> >
> > MS, IBM fight to own office docs heats up
> > 8 Aug, 2007, 0152 hrs IST,Harsimran Singh, TNN
> >
> >
> >   HYPERLINK
> > " http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2263811,prtpage-1
> > .
> > cms" \nPrint
> >
> >
> >
> > NEW DELHI: The fight between world's biggest IT companies — Microsoft
> > and IBM-Sun Microsystems combine — has landed on Indian shores. Come
> > September 2 and India faces a deadline: to vote for making Microsoft's
> > Open Office Extensible Markup Language (OOXML) as an ISO standard for
> > electronic documents or not along with 123 other countries.
> >
> > But the Bureau of Indian Standards, which has to submit a vote on
> > India's behalf seems clueless, despite less than a month to go for the
> > deadline. Microsoft and rival ODF (Open Document Format) alliance led by
> > IBM & Sun Microsystems are hurling accusations at each other. A meeting
> > on the issue has been called on Wednesday by BIS.
> >
> > Sun Microsystems country director (government strategy) Jaijit
> > Bhattacharya said, "About 160 technical issues have been identified with
> > OOXML. OOXML does not seem to address its design goals. Moreover, no
> > Indian organisation or institution was involved in the development of
> > OOXML. If we do not have any say in the development of a standard, we
> > lose out on the technological sovereignty. We do not see any standalone
> > implementations of OOXML by an Indian firm unlike the ISO ODF standard."
> >
> >
> > Microsoft, however, counters Sun's claims. A meeting has been called on
> > Thursday by the government in which both parties will meet. Microsoft
> > India's national technology officer Vijay Kapur counters Sun, "OOXML is
> > an open standard and its specifications are fully documented. There is
> > no royalty charged and it works on a covenant of not to sue. It does not
> >
> > recourse to any proprietary information held by Microsoft."
> >
> > "OOXML's design principles are based on the old binary format which is
> > known only to a selective few, decided by Microsoft. There is no clarity
> > by Microsoft on the same. OOXML is also not fully interoperable as the
> > full fidelity of an Open Office (ODF) document is not maintained in MS
> > Word or other OOXML based word processors," adds Mr Bhattacharya.
> >
> > ODF advocate IIT-Delhi assistant Prof P Vigneshwara IIavarasan clarifies
> > the issue, "The politics behind the battle is clear. Microsoft wants to
> > retain its over 95% market share in word processing documents in the
> > garb of OOXML. But Sun Micro and IBM want to grab a pie of it and
> > prevent Microsoft in its plans."
> >
> > He, however, confirms Sun Microsystems claims that a MS Word document is
> > not fully interoperable with Open Office (by ODF) and hence not an open
> > standard. A converter or translator has to be downloaded to convert one
> > format to another. Experts say that adopting OOXML will make India
> > locked into a particular vendor.
> >
> >
> > ****
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