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Subject: Re: [office] Projity's OpenProj
Bruce, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: >> >> News: Projit's MS Project clone moving to open source, talking with >> Sun regarding possible move to OpenOffice.org. >> The part that caught my interest was, "Projity plans to invest >> "significant resources" into driving the creation of an open >> standards document format for project management that would be an >> alternative to the .mpp/.mpx formats used by Microsoft Project, and >> would eventually become a subset of the OpenDocument Format natively >> used by OpenOffice and StarOffice. " >> >> So something to think about after ODF 1.2, perhaps adding project >> management formats. > > Yes, though would like to see them get more innovative (e.g. less > "MS-clone"!) project management developers like the Omni Group > involved if possible to make sure it's a suitably flexible format. > > ODF really needs to be a path to the next generation in productivity, > rather than just the old ways in XML. > +1! But as a hint to some of the larger vendors, support for their own staff and/or others to work on integrating such projects into ODF is what is going to make ODF the path for the next generation in productivity. Simply being a possible path and being a path that has attracted vendor support are two different things. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick > Bruce > > -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300)
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