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LinuxWorld Australia: Sun Urges Massachusetts to Reject Open XML

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 29, 2005

“Sun Microsystems Monday urged a Massachusetts state official to
rethink an opinion that Microsoft’s Open XML (Extensible Markup
Language) meets the state’s parameters for an acceptable open
document format just because it has been submitted as an open
standard.

“In a letter signed by Carl Cargill, director of corporate
standards for Sun, the company asked the state to keep in mind the
reasons for its previous commitment to the Open Document Format for
Office Applications (OpenDocument) specification…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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