Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote

L0k1 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:52:35 GMT

BSI (British Standards Institution) - “The compelling need exists for an open document-format standard that is capable of creating and preserving the billions of documents that have been created in the preexisting binary formats…” This does not mean that the standard has to be a new XML representation of the preexisting binary formats. There is already an open document-format standard that is capable of preserving the documents, and that already has widespread use and for some time its evolution has “enjoyed the checks and balances afforded by an open standards process.”

"Microsoft has responded via the industry trade group ECMA to some of the thousands of criticisms of its submission of Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver takes a look at those responses to see if Microsoft has made significant changes in either the substance of OOXML or the manner in which the OOXML specification will be maintained going forward. Ossendryver concludes that Microsoft's position has not significantly changed, but only hardened in place in advance of the Ballot Resolution Meeting which is to occur from February 25 through 29 in Geneva. While no one can say for certain whether Microsoft will succeed in having OOXML win the nod from the international community, Ossendryer thinks that Microsoft's firm stance is likely to backfire."

чтож...надеемся когда-нибудь примут единый стандарт...

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L0k1 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Сабж.

Очень важно уделить внимание виртуализации.

По-сути, виртуализация — это перенесение необходимых для бизнеса функций в сеть и предоставление приложений по запросу. Оценить отличия стандартной системы от виртуальной можно по этой схеме.

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