[nylug-talk] .oO or MS Office ? Neither! [LONG]

[Peter C. Norton]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:50:59PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> That is my biggest problem with odt or openXML. They are just office  
> document schemas. And that's all these applications can handle.  
> Companies pay big bugs to put back the information into their  
> workflow they loose by using office applications.
> Companies like EMC, ixos make big bugs by doing that while a regular  
> svn should be enough to manage your documents.

Big bucks off of big bucks. The freudian slip is quite accurate
though. At a former employer they have spent millions on a document
control system for one medium-sized department where, afaik, it still
doesn't work. The big problem is, of course, how to manage word docs
with all the various junk that comes along with it.

-Peter

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