OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out'

Iria · Oct 3, 2005, 03:02 PM

A Sun Microsystems executive says the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world.

Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.

"Now we have the potential to explode the world again, to turn everything inside out again, if we get the widespread use across the office desktops of the world, of a common, open, unencumbered, reusable data format, namely OpenDocument," Bray said at the conference. "So we could see an explosion over the next decade that is like the Web happening again. And that would be fun--I'd love to see that happening."

Bray claimed that although Microsoft Office documents have become the de facto standard, the software giant's applications suite has not caused a revolution because it is not a format designed to be open or reusable.
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out' A Sun Microsystems executive says the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world. Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did. "Now we have the potential to explode the world again, to turn everything inside out again, if we get the widespread use across the office desktops of the world, of a common, open, unencumbered, reusable data format, namely OpenDocument," Bray said at the conference. "So we could see an explosion over the next decade that is like the Web happening again. And that would be fun--I'd love to see that happening." Bray claimed that although Microsoft Office documents have become the de facto standard, the software giant's applications suite has not caused a revolution because it is not a format designed to be open or reusable. __________ Read More / Source: News.com