[LINK] IBM has a vested interest NOT seeing OOXML adopted as an ISO standard.

[Janet Hawtin]

On 8/13/07, Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:
> > IBM has a vested interest NOT seeing OOXML adopted as an ISO standard. Why? IBM's latest collaboration platform, IBM Lotus, and IBM Lotus Notes 8 includes word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software relying on ODF. IBM would love to see ODF exist as the most widely adopted open file format standard: It benefits their go-to-market initiatives for IBM Lotus, especially in developing countries that don't have the Microsoft legacy that the US or Western Europe has.
> <http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2007/08/can-anyone-be-o.html>

Many people have vested interests in this process.
For me the underlying concern is around what an ISO really means and
whether this proposal supports standards in a functional sense or
detracts from them.
Microsoft is also able to support odf formats and to compete with IBM
in an open document format. Using the format as a client fencing
strategy is not what standards are about.

Janet