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by Michael Cote.
Original Post: links for 2007-02-03 from PeopleOverProcess.com
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Feed Description: Using Java to get to the ideal state.
“The Open XML Translator is now available for download in version 1.0 from SourceForge.net…. allows Microsoft Word documents based on Open XML to be translated into ODF and vice versa.”
“Put plainly, Amazon has been promising for a decade it would eventually find scale and become obscenely profitable, and that has never happened. Instead, the company has been spending heavily since inception on technology and content…”
“The sticks will probably contain the Firefox 2 Web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, an office productivity suite such as OpenOffice.org 2, an audio and video player, and software for instant messaging.”
“Two years later, it seems that not a single line of code has been written. [ORCL says] that this isn’t cause to worry, because writing the code is the last thing that needs to be done.”