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Achieving Openness: A Closer Look at ODF and OOXML Publish Date: Jun. 14, 2007
The often public battle between Microsoft and the Open Source community over document standards has been in the news a lot lately. With states and countries choosing to mandate ODF, Microsoft has been doing its best to get the rival OOXML standard adopted. Sam Hiser, Vice President and Director of Business Affairs at the OpenDocument Foundation, presents his reasons why ODF is the way to go.
What Is OpenDocument Publish Date: Jul. 27, 2006
The OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open source file format standard for electronic office documents, is poised to change the world from an application-centric model of computing to a document-centric model. Sam
Hiser looks at this new standard, how it implements XML for office documents, the technical and political wranglings in the standard, available tools, applications that offer ODF support, who's implementing ODF, and more.
Storming the Microsoft Edifice Publish Date: Oct. 14, 2004
In the battle for open source and open standards on user desktops, applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox are stealthily winning small skirmishes. Sam Hiser describes the situation in terms of Monty Python's "Trojan rabbit."
What's So Java About Sun's Linux Desktop? Publish Date: Oct. 6, 2004
Sun attracted some sharp criticism when it released a tightly integrated Linux desktop distribution under the name Java Desktop System. But as Sam Hiser, coauthor of Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop shows, JDS has much to recommend it.
