Der er i dag kommet en IDC rapport om åbne standarder – og når snakken falder på dette – i særdeleshed ODF og OpenXML. Det i sig selv er jo sørgeligt (at åbne standarder tit bliver til OpenXML vs. ODF) – i min optik, dvs services og system interop og forbundne systemer er åbne standarder så meget andet.
I rapporten er der en passage som forsøger at danne bro mellem min daglige web services verden, interoprabilitet og dokumentformaterne. På baggrund af en række forspørgelser hos diverse virksomheder bliver der konkluderet følgende om dokumentformaternes relation til SOA og interop:


” In the previous sections we have made the observations that interoperability is
important – actually key – to companies and organizations today. It is significant to
notice that the survey data shows a positive correlation between importance of
interoperability on one side and the use of Open XML on the other side. This
correlation is much stronger than the similar correlation to ODF.

This means that by all probability companies see a relation between the two, e.g. that
the use of Open XML will provide a better foundation for interoperability than ODF.
This is furthermore underlined by similar correlations between Open XML and SOA
as well as XML messaging. Companies rating interoperability, SOA and XML
messaging high also tend to rate Open XML high.”

Jeg kan specielt godt lide de sidste 3 linier – endelig er der nogen uden for Microsoft, som siger det, jeg har ”prædiket” siden lanceringen af Office 2003.  

Update 29-11-2006: Nu med link: http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2006/11/27/IDC_Open_Document_Standards.aspx