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IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?

Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 01/21/2008 - 11:57.

In spite of their public opposition to Microsoft’s attempt to get the ISO standardization nod for its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, IBM and Google quietly are supporting OOXML.

That’s according to two blog postings from the end of last week by Microsoft execs involved in the OOXML vs. Open Document Format (ODF) standards battle.

In a blog post entitled, “Speaking of odd contradictions … ” Gray Knowlton, Microsoft Group Product Manager of the Office technical product management team, cited IBM’s support for OOXML in two products: IBM DB2 Content Manager v8.4 and IBM Websphere Portal. A company spokeswoman said Microsoft also had discovered IBM is supporting OOXML in its IBM Lotus Quickr team-collaboration product, as well as in IBM DB2 9 pureXML.

Office Program Manager Brian Jones, meanwhile, noted that another major ODF proponent.

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False. FUD. Propaganda.

Submitted by schestowitz on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 03:10.

False. FUD. They are getting miserable, so they troll.

The truth is here:

It is hard to resolve the pecking order of posters in the Microsoft blogger echo chamber. So let's just remark that all the usual suspects assisted in this one: Doug Mahugh, Stephen McGibbon, Oliver Bell, Gray Knowlton, etc. Mix together, shake, repeat, turn the crank and presto! Out comes news.

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By analogy to patent trolls, what we're seeing here is the behavior of a standards troll -- defining a conformance clause so vague that everything in the world is considered to support it, and then searching through competitor's web sites in hopes of finding some place where they stumbled into supporting it, and then trying to extract some advantage from it.

The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!

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