I’ve written before telling what I think about the ISO’s attitude, rejecting the appeals to OpenXML approval (btw, until the present day we haven’t received ISO’s  “official response” in Brazil… just the press release).
As far as I know, the countries that sent the appeals do not intend to appeal again, despite this be possible under […]

It was published today on ISO’s website a press release announcing that “…The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats…”, stating that “…None of the appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela received the support for further processing of […]

In order to clarify to the general public the impacts of open standards for office documents on Communications Networks, Sergio Amadeu (Cásper Líbero College) recorded a chat with me (Jomar Silva) and Deivi Kuhn (SERPRO) to talk about the  currently existing office document standards and their importance.
On the video, that can also be accessed here, […]

I haven’t posted anything in recent days on my blog because I’m anxious and tense about the appeals that were sent to ISO regarding OpenXML (and when I am anxious and tense, usually I’m not very rational with the stuff I write).
Next Monday is the the deadline to members of ISO’s TMB and IEC’s SMB […]

A SAP application expand the list of ODF supporting applications.
I am very happy to recommend everyone to read this post, from Erwin Tenhumberg’s blog (former Sun Microsystems now Open Source Program Manager at SAP), where he shows step by step how to export data from SAP to a spreadsheet in ODF.
The list of applications that […]

Since I participate in the Brazilian group that analyzed the OpenXML, I have the distinct impression that a hidden agenda have guided the decisions of the JTC1 and more recently the SC34 at ISO.
Not so long ago, the major evidence for me was the number of countries that changed their votes in the last days […]

It sounds like a joke, but the Senator Azeredo’s project was approved on Brazilian senate during the night of last Wednesday.
The project now is going to the Chamber of Deputies and we have our last chance to do something there.
I recommend everyone to read this post (sorry folks, Google Translation is all that I can […]

I have discussed on the past days, mainly with people that don’t are IT experts, the Senator Eduardo Azeredo’s project (see banner at the sidebar of this blog). Most people have difficulty to understand the problem, mainly because they don’t fell that they are affected by it. I therefore decided to find a way, very, […]

It is with great pleasure that I present the recommendation of AGESIC (Agency for the Development of Government Electronic Management and Information and Knowledge Society) of Uruguay, which states that “… the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Powers, Decentralized Organizations and Companies where the state holds equity majority… “, shall distribute and receive electronic documents in, […]

When started this blog I promised that I would write every Friday about music, my passion since childhood (I play drums since 11 years, and some other instruments too). As life goes by, I could not keep this promise, but I will write whenever I can or have something very interesting to share.
I am a […]