I am occasionally asked, what is the correct name of the ODF standard? Is it “OpenDocument Format”? Or is it “Open Document Format”, with a space between “Open” and “Document”? I’d like (hopefully) to clear this up. The naming decision happened back in 2004. At that point Sun had contributed their specification for the OpenOffice […]
Archives for April 2010
IBM Software Consumability Survey
We (IBM’s Software Group) are doing a survey of user perceptions of the “consumability” of our products. “What is consumability?” you might well ask. It is a new word for an old idea. It describes the end-to-end customer experience, the consistency and cohesion of our products and solutions, from acquisition, prototyping, through integration, deployment, maintenance […]
Weekly Links #7
lpOD — languages & platforms OpenDocument – lpOD 0.9.1 “Granada” is released – View “lpOD 0.9.1 “Granada” is released lpOD 0.9.1 has just been released, together with its documentation. You can download lpOD 0.9.1 here.” tags: ODF Workshop on Document Freedom – Presentations | Open Technologies Resource Center “OTRC organized one day workshop regarding Free […]
Why I like Oracle’s $90 ODF Plugin
There has been a flurry of news articles about Oracle’s price change on their (formerly Sun’s) ODF Plugin for MS Office. What was previously free (as in beer), at least for individual use, is now sold for $90 and with a minimum quantity of 100. The broad coverage (ZDNet, BusinessWeek, CNET, NBC, IDG, etc.) of […]
Yet Another Browser Choice Fail
A few weeks ago I wrote about Microsoft’s “browser choice” ballot page in Europe, which in its debut used a flawed algorithm when attempting to perform a “random shuffle” of the browser choices, a feature specifically called for in their agreement with the EU. This bug was fixed soon after it was reported. But I […]