"I landed in Dallas a few minutes ago and checked in with a representative of IBM to find out how the vote at Ecma went today. Due to confidentiality obligations, he was not able to give me details on the deliberations themselves, but he was able to describe the results in some detail. Here's what I learned:
"1. Ecma has voted to create the Technical Committee requested by Microsoft.
"2. But for a single vote against creating the committee (that was IBM) and a single abstention (HP), everyone else who voted cast their ballot in favor of the proposal..."
