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Sun seeks many Davids for MS Office fight (Register)
The Register reports that
Sun is working on a set of XML data standards for use in desktop
productivity applications. "Once standards for data formats are
established, Sun believes two factors will drive development of Office
rivals. One is increased maturity of open source browsers such as Mozilla
and the Linux operating system - Fowler cited Red Hat 7.3 and SuSE 8.0 as
good examples, which he said have "reasonable" install and
management."
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Sun seeks many Davids for MS Office fight (Register) Posted Sep 2, 2002 17:08 UTC (Mon) by ksmathers (guest, #2353) [Link] Why should Sun create a new standard when an industry wide XML markup language already exists for books and other documents.
Sun seeks many Davids for MS Office fight (Register) Posted Sep 2, 2002 23:36 UTC (Mon) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] Did you look at the article? It says that Sun is working with OASIS -- the people you linked to -- to develop this standard. I'm sure someone involved is aware of docbook.
Sun seeks many Davids for MS Office fight (Register) Posted Sep 3, 2002 16:55 UTC (Tue) by ksmathers (guest, #2353) [Link] If you are saying that Sun will be using DocBook in their standards submission to OASIS then I'm quite happy, but I didn't see any mention of existing standards in the announcement. Yes, they are using the same standards body that DocBook was submitted to, but without knowing how OASIS is organized internally I can't speculate on whether they try (W3C style) to keep their standards internally consistent, or (X-Open style) simply ratify any standard that crosses their desk with enough money behind it.
Sun seeks many Davids for MS Office fight (Register) Posted Sep 3, 2002 13:09 UTC (Tue) by ecureuil (subscriber, #3507) [Link] The article also forgot to mention www.1dok.org an initiative sponsored by the German government and the European Union to create a standard in XML for office documents.The people there are working with Openoffice.org, KOffice and GnomeOffice. Ecureuil
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