Friday, January 11, 2008

Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Free Report on ODF/OOXML Available

More details on the Burton Group ODF/OOXML overview, from a Guy Creese post:

Burton Group has just published a comprehensive overview of the ODF/OOXML debate, along with projections and recommendations for IT planners. We’ve made the overview available for free (I must admit I'm not sure for how long), as we believe this topic warrants expanded industry debate before a February, 2008 ISO ballot on OOXML, and we want to help catalyze and advance the debate.

Additional context to consider:

Please note that this overview, like all Burton Group research, is a completely vendor-independent perspective; Burton Group does not engage in vendor “white papers” or other vendor-paid writing projects. This is another way to say we'll probably ruffle some vendor feathers on this one, but we've tried hard to look into this objectively and in some detail (the report is 37 pages long).

It also builds on themes we’ve covered in other recent research, including next-generation hypertext, DITA and other means of improving XML content reusability, and XQuery. Collectively, we believe these advances will fundamentally improve the ways information workers collaborate and manage content.

Go download and read the overview and let us know what you think.

Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Free Report on ODF/OOXML Available

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Impressive. Cuts right through the FUD.

pbokelly said...

Thanks for the feedback -- much appreciated