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ptsefton continues his rant that OpenOffice does not support the Open Web. He's been on this rant for so long, i'm wondering if he really thinks there's a chance the lords of ODF and the OpenOffice source code are listening? In this post he describes how useless it is to submit his findings and frustrations with OOo in a bug report. Pretty funny stuff even if you do end up joining the Michael Meeks trek along this trail of tears. Maybe there's another way?

What would happen if pt moved from targeting the not so open OpenOffice, to target governments and enterprises trying to set future information system requirements?

NY State is next up on this endless list. Most likely they will follow the lessons of exhaustive pilot studies conducted by Massachusetts, California, Belgium, Denmark and England, and end up mandating the use of both open standard "XML" formats, ODF and OOXML.

The pilots concluded that there was a need for both XML formats; depending on the needs of different departments and workgroups. The pilot studies scream out a general rule of thumb; if your department has day-to-day business processes bound to MSOffice workgroups, then it makes sense to use MSOffice OOXML going forward. If there is no legacy MSOffice bound workgroup or workflow, it makes sense to move to OpenOffice ODF.

One thing the pilots make clear is that it is prohibitively costly and disruptive to try to replace MSOffice bound workgroups.

What NY State might consider is that the Web is going to be an important part of their informations systems future. What a surprise. Every pilot recognized and indeed, emphasized this fact. Yet, they fell short of the obvious conclusion; mandating that desktop applications provide native support for Open Web formats, protocols and interfaces!

What's wrong with insisting that desktop applciations and office suites support the rapidly advancing HTML+ technologies as well as the applicat

" Posted by Alex Cruickshank on May 30 2014 The internet has come a long way in 20 years. The infrastructure is older than that, of course, but it was 1994 when the amazing new World Wide Web started to make a serious impression on me and my colleagues and friends. Firing up Netscape Navigator 1.0 on Windows 3.11 with a wobbly TCP/IP stack and a 14.4kbps modem, typing in a cryptic URL and seeing information from the other side of the world, instantly! It was an incredible experience."

" Posted by Alex Cruickshank on May 30 2014 The internet has come a long way in 20 years. The infrastructure is older than that, of course, but it was 1994 when the amazing new World Wide Web started to make a serious impression on me and my colleagues and friends. Firing up Netscape Navigator 1.0 on Windows 3.11 with a wobbly TCP/IP stack and a 14.4kbps modem, typing in a cryptic URL and seeing information from the other side of the world, instantly! It was an incredible experience."