http://www.simbiosys.com/blog/2008/05/13/conformance-problems-odf-and-ooxml/ Addressing the challenges of computational drug discovery Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:23:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 http://www.simbiosys.com/blog/2008/05/13/conformance-problems-odf-and-ooxml/#comment-1381 Sat, 17 May 2008 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.simbiosys.com/blog/2008/05/13/conformance-problems-odf-and-ooxml/#comment-1381 Rich, the interest is strictly personal, nothing to do with SimBioSys business. I am an exclusive Linux user, i.e. I never really "worked" on Windows platform or MS software in general. I "grew up" on DOS: IBM-DOS or DR-DOS, I hated MS-DOS and avoided it :), then in 1993 when I started my PhD in Leeds, it was all on Unix (Sun Solaris and SGI Irix). After that I did not want to leave the unix world, so I installed my first Linux system in 1996. I keep using Linux ever since, tried many distro, my favorite is Mandriva. In the SimBioSys office we have about 8 different linux versions on various machines, still have a couple of Irix boxes, two Suns and one windows box in the far corner of another room - nobody works on it and I do not ever touch it ;) Bottomline is, the binary doc/ppt formats were always causing lots of incompatibility headache for me (when people send me such or I have to send a document to someone). So I was very happy when ODF got accepted as an ISO standard, finally I had a hope that in a few years the world will switch to that format and my document exchange problems disappear. Unfortunately, the monopoly marketing machine went into overload mode to shove OOXML down people's throat as a counter move - to prevent interoperability forever. OK, end of rant... ZZ. Rich, the interest is strictly personal, nothing to do with SimBioSys business. I am an exclusive Linux user, i.e. I never really “worked” on Windows platform or MS software in general. I “grew up” on DOS: IBM-DOS or DR-DOS, I hated MS-DOS and avoided it , then in 1993 when I started my PhD in Leeds, it was all on Unix (Sun Solaris and SGI Irix). After that I did not want to leave the unix world, so I installed my first Linux system in 1996. I keep using Linux ever since, tried many distro, my favorite is Mandriva. In the SimBioSys office we have about 8 different linux versions on various machines, still have a couple of Irix boxes, two Suns and one windows box in the far corner of another room - nobody works on it and I do not ever touch it
Bottomline is, the binary doc/ppt formats were always causing lots of incompatibility headache for me (when people send me such or I have to send a document to someone). So I was very happy when ODF got accepted as an ISO standard, finally I had a hope that in a few years the world will switch to that format and my document exchange problems disappear. Unfortunately, the monopoly marketing machine went into overload mode to shove OOXML down people’s throat as a counter move - to prevent interoperability forever. OK, end of rant…
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]]> http://www.simbiosys.com/blog/2008/05/13/conformance-problems-odf-and-ooxml/#comment-1292 Tue, 13 May 2008 23:26:17 +0000 http://www.simbiosys.com/blog/2008/05/13/conformance-problems-odf-and-ooxml/#comment-1292 ZZ, this is good to know. I'm curious - why are XML office document formats of such interest to you/SimBioSys? ZZ, this is good to know. I’m curious - why are XML office document formats of such interest to you/SimBioSys?

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