LinuxInsider: Selling Open-Source Solutions Against Office 2003

“Noster fungitur–ours works. It’s the motto I
suggested to a local Mac user group. But it’s also the theme you
need to push when selling open-source software against the
Microsoft desktop system–Windows 2003 Server with Office 2003.
Office 2003, in combination with Server 2003, is the first major
Microsoft product to incorporate the company’s vision for an
XML-enabled future filled with hot-button features like end-to-end
document management.

“XML started out as a subset of the standard generalized markup
language (SGML) developed for the printing and text-processing
industries. XML requires a marked-up document, a document type
definition (DTD)–such as HTML–to describe the markup used, and a
processor or parser capable of formatting the document according to
its embedded markup…”

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