May 2009

The Battle for ODF Interoperability

May 17, 2009

Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called “ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success”. The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability. The creation of test suites, convening of multi-vendor interoperability workshops and plugfests is [...]

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A follow-up on Excel 2007 SP2′s ODF support

May 7, 2009

Wow. My previous post seems to have attracted some attention. When I woke up on Monday morning, made my coffee and logged into to my email, I found out that my geeky little analysis of Office 2007 SP2′s ODF support had sparked some interest. I did not intend it to be more than an update [...]

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OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents

May 5, 2009

A belated note that an article of mine on ODF was recently published in IEEE Internet Computing, called “OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents“. I think it is a good introduction to ODF, what it is, where it came from and why it is important. They allow authors to post a copy on their [...]

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Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability

May 3, 2009

[2009/05/07 -- I've posted a follow up article on this topic which you may want to read] A couple of months ago I did some experiments on the interoperability of ODF spreadsheets, the theory and practice. In that earlier post I looked at the then current ODF implementations, including: OpenOffice.org 2.4 Google Spreadsheets KOffice KSpread [...]

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