Five years ago today, on May 1st, 2005 OASIS approved Open Document Format 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. I'd like to take a few brief minutes to reflect on this milestone, but only a few. We're busy at work in OASIS making final edits to ODF 1.2. … [Continue reading] about ODF at 5 Years
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 … [Continue reading] about The Naming of Standards
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 … [Continue reading] about IBM Software Consumability Survey
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: … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #7
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 … [Continue reading] about Why I like Oracle’s $90 ODF Plugin