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 … [Continue reading] about The Battle for ODF Interoperability
A follow-up on Excel 2007 SP2’s ODF support
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 … [Continue reading] about A follow-up on Excel 2007 SP2’s ODF support
OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents
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 … [Continue reading] about OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents
Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
[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 … [Continue reading] about Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability
Shooting Daffodils
I like daffodils. I've been planting a couple hundred additional bulbs each fall, so that now I have a lovely spring-time display, right around this time. In past years I would walk through the garden and take a photo here and there, mainly while … [Continue reading] about Shooting Daffodils