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Freitag Juni 03, 2005

Gartner on Microsoft's XML Announcement
"While XML benefits may be clear to some, Office 12's other benefits are not, and customers will face the toil of migration. [...]
When Microsoft changed the file formats in its Office 97 suite, it was late with converters for older versions of Office and the change forced companies to do wholesale replacements of Office to get to a supportable, usually homogenous Office 97 infrastructure. [...]
While it will be possible for OpenOffice.org and others to more faithfully replicate Microsoft's file format in their applications, Microsoft's rendering engine will not be an open specification."

Apparently, even Gartner believes that Microsoft's approach is not truly open in the sense that allows other vendors to participate. The OASIS OpenDocument XML format standard in contrast is now supported by multiple companies. For example, IBM, Adobe and Sun are members of technical committee. OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice and IBM's Workplace products are implementing the standard. Thus, why adopt a Microsoft XML format that is not really an open standard, considering the migration costs and efforts to Office 12?
( Jun 03 2005, 07:41:19 AM CEST ) Permalink

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