The ODF-only evangelists have had a rough month. First, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided that its CIOs should have the ability to choose OoXML, PDF and RTF to best meet the needs of citizens. Now, Apple removes beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the anti-OoXML community’s favorite bits [...]
Yesterday, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts released the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) and it <gasp> included a thumbs up for the Microsoft/Apple/British Library-sponsored Ecma-376 Office Open XML standard. Don't worry PJ, Bob, et al. It's not a sign of the apocalypse, the Rapture, or the Quickening. [...]
Sean Garrett over at the 463 blog has a good summary of the TPS interview of Sun Microsystem's CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday. Walt Mossberg proved to be a great interviewer (as you would expect) and the discussion ranged across a lot of issues, including broadband policy and the greening of [...]
Brazil, India and Italy recently joined the Open Document Format parade, according to today's press release from the ODF Alliance. Brazil will recommend ODF as the government's preferred format, India decided to use ODF at its tax office, and Italy will recognize ODF as national standard. Is this good or [...]