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- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -5/+17good. a developing 3rd world country can do without growing dependent on M$ software.
- klick37, on 03/21/2008, -1/+6I wasn't aware there was a way for over 1 billion people to reach a consensus on anything...
- inactive, on 03/22/2008, -0/+4Stick to crapflooding usenet, trollboy.
- oencke, on 03/20/2008, -1/+1Sadly the percentages in the report are false, because 80 percent of the comments weren't talked about at all but sidestepped through the voting process at the end of the meeting.
This was again a big failure in the ISO process showing that such a monstrous amount of comments for a specification are a clear indication that the specification would be very illsuited as a general standard. - inactive, on 03/21/2008, -5/+4M$ OOXML has no chance now ....
- Tomson74, on 03/21/2008, -4/+1Thats about the best thing about India,
now lets have them vote AGAINST OUTSOURCING - schestowitz, on 03/21/2008, -7/+2
A bit of digging in the news quickly discovers just what sort of companies actually voted “Yes” to Microsoft’s OOXML.
Take Infosys for example. Infosys voted “Yes” to OOXML. Let’s look at the news just two weeks ago, shall we?
http://www.livemint.com/2008/03/05000353/Microsoft ...
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Microsoft, Infosys ‘incubating talent’ to beat attrition blues
Faced with the challenge of finding workers with specialist skills and high levels of attrition, technology firms such as Microsoft Corp.’s India unit and local software company Infosys Technologies Ltd have started what they call efforts at “incubating talent” on an experimental basis.
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Is Infosys an impartial voter then. Or one with vested interests?
Let’s move on to another “Yes” vote. Consider Wipro. Just 3 days ago, Wipro published the following press release:
http://press-releases.techwhack.com/17700-sap-17
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Wipro’s study reveals how migration to Microsoft® SQL Server® Pays Big Dividends for SAP/ERP Customers
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced the results of their study, commissioned by Microsoft Corp., concluding that migrating an SAP ERP system to Microsoft® SQL Server can yield net benefits of $850K for a medium-size organization and $10 million for a large organization, all in a payback period of 9 to 15 months.
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In India, another “Yes” voter was NASSCOM, which we seem to have caught in the middle of a huge scandal (Microsoft ‘charity’). Be sure to read about it if you haven’t: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/01/bribe-charity- ...
Another “Yes” vote came from TCS. Go ahead and find the many relationships. To sum up, not a single “Yes” voter was not in Microsoft’s pocket.
Is this voting? Microsoft virtually had 5 seats. It holds them by the money, the mutual favours, the incentives, the personal relationships. Shouldn’t an impartial panel be deciding on OOXML, based on the technical quality of the candidate alone?
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