Ixos-eCon is based on Java and uses XML as a document platform. German e-document firm, Ixos Software, has unveiled its Ixos-eCon online document portal for inter-enterprise systems, but a leading analyst has already warned the company it needs to...
The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, on Tuesday announced the Universal Business Language (UBL) initiative, intended to promote standardised document formats to ease information exchange between...
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is already working on making OpenOffice.org's handling of XML a standard, called the Oasis Open Document Format. Schwartz wrote: "Note that since we do not control...
I'm surprised at this and a little taken back but I figure I'd better play along and surf the net without looking for references to anything controversial. I've tried all my contacts, links through friends, UK PRs, all my links through Tsinghua and...
Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, FSFE president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of Microsoft partner companies from several countries have joined standards organisations and have voted to approve the Office Open XML (OOXML...
Microsoft's Office Open XML document specification has failed to achieve ISO certification for now. Critics of the specification say it contains proprietary components that could lock governments into perpetual commercial relationships with Microsoft.