In case you haven't had time to read the report yet, here's another snapshot (tangent: I've had a sufficient amount of hate mail on this one now, thanks :)...)
The report's authors also argued that multinational tech firms such as Sun Microsystems and Novell are backing ODF to loosen Microsoft's grip on the XML-based documents cash cow.
Despite its strong support for Microsoft to continue to dominate the Office landscape, the Burton report warns the software giant to work closely with other vendors and customers to ensure it lives up to its commitments. It said: "If Microsoft abuses standards initiatives, the market response will be swift and severe."
"The Burton Group has recently released a report entitled "What's Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications"1, written by analysts Peter O'Kelly and Guy Creese. This report makes a number of erroneously negative and unbalanced statements about the Open Document Format (ODF), many of them quite puzzling to us."
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Lolz@u
Having the ODF ALliance comment on this is like turning to ECMA or TC45 comment as whole. If anything it validates the cartel mentality approach in this debate.
ReplyDeleteUpdate: watch the Burton Group CCS blog -- http://ccsblog.burtongroup.com/ --for detailed responses to the ODF Alliance feedback.
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