● 03.12.07

●● Novell Could Take a Lesson from New Zealand

Posted in Formats, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 5:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

In the latest objection to Microsoft’s OOXML, New Zealand explains why this format is not acceptable for adoption as a standard.

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Standards New Zealand, our representative organisation in dealings with the ISO, objects on the grounds that Open Document has already been approved

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Novell, are you listening at all? Or do you just obey Microsoft, on whom you are financially dependent? The good news is that OOXML is heading toward failure. However, with Novell’s incorporation of OOXML support into its branch of OpenOffice, Microsoft formats could gain and even retain a de facto status, which they so desparately crave. It would be virtually impossible to replicate all information/code that is contained within (and beyond) a 6,000-page document.

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