RE: Open doc format

Subject: RE: Open doc format
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:50:37 -0500


Let's see....Open Office really didn't make a dent in the market share for
Word...so a format of document running on Open Office is going to make the
DOC obsolete? Am I missing something or is this just wishful thinking?

And MS is going to just hang around and watch it happen?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike O. [mailto:obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:39 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Open doc format

OASIS is forming an open standard for business documents that
would potentially replace the DOC format:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-966691.html

Discussion on slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/11/21/1726230.shtml

I foresee a nice little side business converting legacy Word documents...



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