" NEW DELHI: Microsoft India today expressed disappointment over Bureau of Indian Standards voting against the software giant's Open XML, which is file format specification for electronic documents. However, the company said that it would continue to work with the Indian government to achieve its "stated goal of technology neutrality". Microsoft said that even though it is disappointed, the company is encouraged by the support of the of industry players Nasscom, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and Infosys, which voted in favour of Open XML. Nasscom and the three IT companies formed a part of BIS LITD committee. "While we are disappointed with the decision of the BIS LITD 15 committee, we are encouraged by the support of IT industry players like Nasscom, TCS, Wipro and Infosys who voted in favour of Open XML becoming an ISO standard," Microsoft India said in a statement..." Story at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News_by_Industry/Microsoft_disappointed_... -----------
Is there anyway to get the details of these 15 member committee ? CK Raju Thrissur
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:03 +0530, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
Is there anyway to get the details of these 15 member committee ?
I think this is the list of members of the committee:
Mr. Rakesh Verma, ADGT, BIS Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, Sun Microsystems(Convener) Mr. D.K. Nayyar, Head(LITD), BIS Mr. Laxman Swarup, Joint Director(LITD), BIS MS. Reena Garg, Joint Director(LITD), BIS Ms. Sujatha Thanumadi, Asst. Director(LITD), BIS Mr. Manikandan K, Asst. Director(LITD), BIS Mr. Amit Chadda, MAIT Mr. Vijay Kapur, Microsoft India Mr. Deepak Maheshwari, Microsoft India Mr. Prabir Purokayastha, Delhi Science Forum Dr. Nagarjuna, Free Software Foundation, India Mr. Ashish Gautam, IBM, India Dr. Rajanish Dass, IIM Ahmedabad
See http://odfalliance.in/files/2007-13-6%20Minutes.pdf
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On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:03 +0530, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
Is there anyway to get the details of these 15 member committee ?
I am sorry. I made a mistake. That was the list of members of the Wordprocessing Sub-Committe. Sorry for the mistake.
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"There has never been a more intense global industry debate over open standards. On the one hand is Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format backed by Apple, Novell, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, and Nasscom. On the other is the Open Document Format (ODF), supported by the likes of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Google, the Department of Information Technology (DIT), National Informatics Centre (NIC), CDAC, IIT-Mumbai and IIM-Ahmedabad...." Story at http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?autono=317797&l...
The number equals, but were they the representatives ? CK Raju
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:03 +0530, CK Raju, Thrissur wrote:
Is there anyway to get the details of these 15 member committee ?
I am sorry. I made a mistake. That was the list of members of the Wordprocessing Sub-Committe. Sorry for the mistake.
Best Sasi
-- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com