[dba-Tech] Microsoft targets Adobe with PDF rival

And that would be great if it were a truly open format. (Especially if it
had the power of an MS language model behind it.) But int eh article the MS
marketing dude said they need to have "control" in that format. Maybe I
interpreted that wrong but to me it didn't sound open in the sense of web
standards open.

Also have the problem of two "standards" out there. One controlled by Adobe
and one by MS. Which would you trust more with a "standard"? I'm not sure.
Adobe has had some issues with the post script standard, but then again, MS
and open standards?...

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft targets Adobe with PDF rival

On 10/31/05, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> What do you think?

Personally I see it as Microsoft trying to push a uniform format for their
information. As a whole, it seems like people are pushing more and more
towards a uniform way to store / transmit pure data (XML, RSS, etc)