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IBM`s Sutor takes gloves off on MS ODF comment
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03/07/2006, By David Berlind
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Today, almost a year later, there are all sorts of competitors to Office sprouting up (many of them Web/AJAX-based) that surprisingly don't support ODF. For some developers I've spoken too, it isn't a question of not wanting to support ODF in their products. The desire is there. It's the difficulty in doing so. ODF is a complicated specification for which no open source software development kit (SDK) exists. In other words, if you want to snap ODF support into that Web-based word processor or spreadsheet that you're developing, you have to do most of the heavy lifting yourself. If there was one oversight in the go-to-market strategy that was hatched by IBM, Sun and others, it was that the solid open source SDK that makes full-blown ODF support a cinch should have been co-developed by the two companies and made available some time last year.
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