<quote url="http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4875"> 29 November 2005 Sun urges US state to reject Microsoft open format By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Sun has urged the state of Massachusetts to rethink its opinion that Microsoft's Open XML meets the acceptable parameters for an open format In a letter signed by the director of corporate standards for Sun, Carl Cargill, the company asked the state to keep in mind the reasons for its previous commitment to the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) specification. ... </quote> This article is also very interesting. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1894039,00.asp ~James