Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

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"I am merely a neutral observer..." Merely?

You have not hidden your advocacy, and I'd say regaining your neutrality would be a gargantuan effort. Might I offer my own objective analyses as exemplars, should you wish to pursue disinterest?

You also wrote:

From a customer perspective, it means that IT managers and users will have to worry about making sure any flavor of OpenOffice (including IBM?s Symphony) is interoperable with Microsoft Office. No big surprise: document format interoperability is critical to ongoing business operations and must be assured before anyone will adopt OpenOffice.

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Given that OOXML is the likely de facto standard, ODF by the wayside, wouldn't full interoperability mean that OpenOffice.org was able to do everything Office can using the version of OOXML Microsoft currntly uses?

I suggest that as well as OpenOffice.org can meet its intended purposes, that functionality is less than provided by Microsoft.

So (limited) interoperability doesn't mean equivalence.


See, unbiased.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 08/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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