Comments on: IBM Joins OpenOffice http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2007/09/10/ibm-joins-openoffice/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:24:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: mawrya http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2007/09/10/ibm-joins-openoffice/comment-page-1/#comment-186404 mawrya Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:39:38 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/09/10/ibm-joins-openoffice/#comment-186404 Thanks for the link, this will be interesting. OpenOffice is another major XForms implementation, which may be at least somewhat telling. Although I haven't developed with OOXForms like I have with the Firefox XForms Extension, I can certainly see why IBM is interested in XForms in general. In the office where I work, pretty much everything is a form, often either badly implemented in a spreadsheet or total overkill via some sort of custom program with a database backend. XForms plants flowers in the desert of creating and editing form-centric documents, the heart of most business. On a side note, when you say "IBM's big interest with Mozilla WAS XForms" you really mean "IS", right? I mean, they are still actively driving development of the XForms extension unless you know something I don't, which is quite possible. Thanks for the link, this will be interesting. OpenOffice is another major XForms implementation, which may be at least somewhat telling. Although I haven’t developed with OOXForms like I have with the Firefox XForms Extension, I can certainly see why IBM is interested in XForms in general. In the office where I work, pretty much everything is a form, often either badly implemented in a spreadsheet or total overkill via some sort of custom program with a database backend. XForms plants flowers in the desert of creating and editing form-centric documents, the heart of most business.

On a side note, when you say “IBM’s big interest with Mozilla WAS XForms” you really mean “IS”, right? I mean, they are still actively driving development of the XForms extension unless you know something I don’t, which is quite possible.

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