I was honored to be invited to present a short 45 minute talk about interoperability at OpenOffice.org conference in Budapest, Hungary on September 2 nd 2010. This gave me to opportunity to catch a good number of other sessions during the course of the...

I am sometimes being asked by customers what to make of how some vendors (or those who have been educated by those vendors) are describing capabilities of their software with regard to support for Office file formats: (I am not making these up,...

Genesis 11:1-9 tells a very powerful story: Humans overstepping their boundaries by building the tower of Babel, God then identifying their common language as the key element of their ability to collaborate ("the people is one, and they have all one language;...

Imagine you are using OpenOffice.org. Or let's say not you, somebody else, hypothetically, once was. Let's call that person "Mr. K.". Mr. K. received a spreadsheet in the OpenDocument Format. Or maybe he found that floppy disc under a pile of paper...