[Web4lib] Hurray OASIS

[Patricia F Anderson]

Interesting, eh?

Monday 5th September 2005
New file format causes Mass panic at Microsoft 10:58AM
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/77076/new-file-format-causes-mass-panic-at-microsoft.html>

"The state of Massachusetts has caused a stir after it has emerged that it 
plans to adopt the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured 
Information Standards) open file format as a prerequisite for new 
productivity suites from 2007. The decision to adopt OASIS formats, 
pioneered by the open source OpenOffice project, has naturally angered 
Microsoft whose Office suite dominates the commercial market."

Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu