[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 03 November 2006 10:57, Ian Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 00:47 -0800, marbux wrote:
> > As I said in an earlier post, I suspect that you too have missed
> > just how big a job it would be to fully implement MOOX in OOo.
> > Someone (Rob Weir?) recently estimated that it would take over 10
> > years to fully implement MOOX in an app other than MS Office, if
> > ever.
>
> Depends how much resource you throw at it. It seems unlikely that
> given the progress with OOo from Star Office in a considerably
> shorter time that coping with a file format would take significantly
> longer even if it meant re-engineering most of the code. If you took
> just a WP (that's an app) you could probably start from scratch and
> have a MOOX product in less a lot less than 10 years with two or
> three full-time and able developers.

I doubt that, what do you base this on?
Based on my years of actually programming on a WP app and seeing various 
items in the spec, 10 years sounds plausible.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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