Jason Matusow has a posting on his blog this morning that explores some of the discussions around the ability for developers to build independent implementations of the Open XML file format and he pulls out some examples, including one of our own here in Asia Pacific.
The ability for independent developers and software vendors to be able to implement the specification in their own products is obviously one of the key benefits that will come with Open XML being a ratified ISO standard.
Due to the characteristics of the Open XML specification there is an expectation that we will start to see implementations offering a range of options including developer tools, office document management, transactional applications and other data communication and management tools. Some examples of these are in the list below.
- Monarch from Datawatch
- XMLSpy from Altova
- iPhone from Apple
- Mindmanager from Minjet
- Gnumeric from Gnome
- Dataviz Documents To Go from Palm
- Open XML IIS Analyzer from Intergen
You can read the full article here, so far it is drawing interesting commentary from those who have been working with the specification.
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