From koffice-devel Thu May 07 11:50:11 2009 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 11:50:11 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: [kde-ev-marketing] Fwd: Req: comment on IBM's claim that ODF Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=124169704915386 On Thu, 7 May 2009, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > I can forward it to the KOffice people, some there might have an > opinion. But it's a bit on short notice... > > > My deadline is about noon PT (west coast US) tomorrow (Wed). Eek, too late now, isn't it? I'm also not sure that we have got someone right now who could weigh in on this debate. To me (but I'm not a spreadsheet specialist) it seems that Dough and Rob are saying substantially the same thing: pity openformula isn't ready yet, weird that OOo is already using it, Rob and Doug only differ in whether it was a good, useful decision by MS to add third way to save formula's to the mix. I don't think so, actually, but I can see where MS is coming from. Apart from the namespace issues, there _is_ considerable interoperability between openformula-specified formulas and old-style ods formula implementations, while there is none between the excel type formula's in ODF and any other implementation. Basically, the ODF formula implementations used to be pretty interoperable; the interoperability has decreased, but we're confident it'll get better in the near future. About openformula: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/About_OpenFormula. Boudewijn _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel