On the revelation that some of IBM's products would support a document format that it officially, adamantly opposes, Hiser is not surprised one bit. IBM and Sun have both had "the magic blueprints" to Microsoft's document formats, including Open XML, for the past several years, Hiser said.
With that key technical interoperability information, "how could you not expect IBM to start coding around OOXML?" he asked.
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