Microsoft’s pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only.The devil is in the details – and Microsoft hasn’t spelled out precisely how or if its ODF 1.
At Oscon 2011, Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, said as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open, that is, open surface, customers don't care about whether the underlying platform is open source or closed source. Microsoft also announced a new version of Azure SDK for PHP is now available and the company is announcing new tools to cloud enable open source applications for Azure.
Alfresco's first commercially supported implementation of CMIS provides interoperability of its enterprise content management system with IBM Lotus social software, Google Docs, Drupal and Microsoft Outlook.In addition to support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), Afresco's Enterprise Edition 3.
The Renaissance project plans to release this week another prototype of its next gen OpenOffice GUI that offers a "hybrid" toolbar combining traditional menus and tabbed toolbars, project leaders say."0.
One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation.A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting company are working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS protocol documentation.
It's more than notable that Red Hat and Microsoft have delivered on some aspects of their cross certification virtualization promises.Here's what was delivered today (verbatim, from the Red Hat press release), following pledges of both companies last February:Validation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Citrix -- a leading virtualization vendor -- has announced a major upgrade of its flagship product, XenApp, formerly known as Citrix MetaFrame and also Presentation Server.XenApp 6, which will be available for download on March 24, offers simplifed centralized management, expanded scalability, enhanced integration with Microsoft virtualization platform and enhanced Macintosh and smartphone support, Citrix said.
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is on a personal mission to crush Microsoft’s Open XML standards effort.On his blog Tuesday, the Canonical executive and Ubuntu developer encouraged members of the global open source community to reach out to their respective International Standards Organization (ANSI in the U.
Acacia Research Corp. on Friday released a statement to ZDNet's Open source Blog writers regarding the patent infringement case it filed against Red Hat and Novell on October 9.
Looks like Microsoft’s Office Open XML will be an ISO standard after all. Maybe.