Ecma could publish final Office Open XML draft Monday (InfoWorld)
( InfoWorld ) - Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt the specification as a standard in December. Governments are taking an interest in open-standard document formats as a way to guarantee access to legacy public information, and

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Ecma could publish final Office Open XML draft Monday (Linux World Australia)
Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt the specification as a standard in December.

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ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.
For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), Ive seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards (namely XML) to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide the graphical app dev environment for stringing everything together in rapid fashion. But what many of these XML soaking rapid app dev solutions have no concept of is scalability. For example, if a single application draws upon three integrated sources to do its job and one of those sources cant keep up with the others (maybe its running on slow hardware or a platform that doesnt scale well), then the …

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