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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-ev-marketing] Fwd: Req: comment on IBM's claim that ODF
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-05-07 11:50:11
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0905071323361.4868 () calcifer ! valdyas ! org
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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

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