The Gospel according to Sun and Microsoft

Annonceindlæg fra Barco

De vigtigste samarbejdstrends, som enhver IT-leder bør holde øje med

I lang tid har samarbejdsbranchen fokuseret på at forbedre enhedsfunktioner – bedre kameraer, klarere lyd og smartere software. Men den virkelige forvandling handler ikke om funktioner.

(A more extensive Danish version of this blog entry is available here).

This is pretty interesting times in Denmark as politicians struggle with a final decision on how to implement the use of Open Standards in the public sector.

"ODF, OpenXML or both?" is the question as Microsoft confronts competitors from the Open Source camp.

My personal share of format juggling started when I interviewed Simon Phipps evangelist from Sun Microsystems back at JavaOne in San francisco in May.

The reult was this podcast where he characterized Microsoft as being a bully.

Microsoft appearently listened in. Stephen McGibbon, Regional Technology Officer for Western Europe kindly delivered a trans script of our podcast.

Then came an eloquent exchange of opinions between Mssrs Phipps and McGibbon.

Stephen's blog notes2self.net is interesting - gives an expanded glimpse of what MS current position is.

Stephen McGibbon’s blog postings concerning document formats arehere.
This posting by Simon stirred things up -Blog entry-
at Simon Phipps' Webmink-blog.

A week ago Stephen McGibbon then paid a visit to Computerworld Denmark joined by Marianne Wier of Microsoft Danmark.

The interview that followed is available here (Mp3-file - 45 MB).

/kurt