RE: [xml-dev] Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML?

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

The mainstream press (not the trade press) is largely uninterested.  In
Seattle, it is local.  It will show up along with other wire releases
because of the gossip angle and because the bloids such as CNet and PCWorld
sell their space.  As issues go, this one has no financial impact yet.
When it does, the results are apparent when governments do as Massachusetts
finally did, evaluate the switching costs and the relative maturity of the
offerings with respect to their own investments. Then they elect to support
choice.

As Sun's head of web technology, is Sun for against choice of technologies
in government procurements?

len


From: Tim.Bray@Sun.COM [mailto:Tim.Bray@Sun.COM] 

Mainstream:

Microsoft puts Office Open XML format up for international vote -  
Seattle P-I
Microsoft format fight with rivals to intensify - Financial Times
Microsoft pressed partners in Sweden to vote for OOXML - Washington Post

Trade press:

Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid - Infoworld
Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay - CNET
ISO boards face OOXML deadline pressure - Inquirer (UK)
Microsoft takes off gloves in open documents battle - Computerworld
Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks - ZDNet
Microsoft's OOXML provokes standards turmoil in France - Computerworld
Microsoft employee offered incentives for OOXML support - PC World
Microsoft pressed partners in Sweden to vote for OOXML - PC World
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes - PC World
Microsoft Pressed Swedish Partners to Vote for Open XML - PC World
Linux Foundation recommends ISO vote No on OOXML - The Inquirer (UK)
Microsoft's OOXML 'choice' argument squashed - Builder AY

 >  The business world is largely unconcerned

The evidence supports that statement about as much as it does the  
previous
one about press obliviouslness.   The Financial Times, in particular,  
does not
waste ink on subjects that are not interesting to business. -Tim