IBM and Microsoft's OpenXML: Update
I'm impressed: IBM has just stuck a dirty great clog in the engine of Microsoft's machinations to get its Office XML format adopted as a formal standard:IBM voted NO today in ECMA on approval for Microsoft’s Open XML spec.
Heavy stuff: I think we expect some horse heads to start turning up soon.... (Via C|net.)
Correction: further to Bob's comment, I've gone to the ECMA site and found the press release announcing the approval of the standard. Naively, I thought that somebody voting against it would block it: not so. Apologies for my over-enthusiastic analysis. I suppose IBM's move was therefore more symbolic than anything. Ah well.
2 comments:
We just voted no, we didn't block it.
Bob Sutor
OK, do you mean that it's gone through anyway?
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