Re: [xml-dev] Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

For readers interested in some of the raw (ballot) data, and
additional commentary:

http://xml.coverpages.org/NIST-ConditionalApprovalVote.html#notes

- Robin Cover

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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, ken_north@compuserve.com wrote:

> The result of internal voting in INCITS on whether ECMA Office Open XML
> should become an ISO standard was announced in a Computerworld article:
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti
> cleId=9030278&pageNumber=1
>
> The vote was 8 for, 7 against and one abstention.
>
> "Members that voted against Open XML were longtime Redmond antagonists such
> as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp., printer maker Lexmark International, barcode
> standards group GS1 US, federal groups such as the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Defense, and
> Farance.
>
> The IEEE abstained.
>
> Voting for Open XML were longtime Microsoft partners such as Intel Corp.,
> EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., and Sony Electronics, as well as foes such
> as Apple Inc., which is supporting Open XML in its just-released iWork '08
> productivity software. The Department of Homeland Security, the Electronic
> Industries Alliance and Microsoft also voted for Open XML, which would join
> the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as ISO-approved standards. "
>
>
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