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My experience is different. Most commercial product makers want to interoperate with MS because it increases their potential market by a factor of ten. ODBC and MS work very nicely with Oracle given the right drivers (it always comes down to the drivers) and if you get the datatype issues (which both Oracle and MS diverge on) right. Then there are the SQL dialects, but that is everyone. There is no perfect interoperability, and may never be, but so far, MS tools don't seem to be better or worse but do have a lot more supporters in the commercial software market. Usually if MS blows it, they blow it inside the product with things like library loading, eg, MS Access installs that file to load the right DAO, or think it has but really hasn't, so you have to hunt down the dll and do it by the numbers. The HTML treatment in MS products suffers from too much cleverness in most things. That is why I edit it by hand, won't use Frontpage or the like, and if I have to export from Word (almost never), I use a macro to strip it clean. As for XML, friends, past XML 1.0, almost everything is up for grabs. I have a lot of sympathy for the TAG members. But not too much. ;-) What I do note about the XML implementations is that MS keeps pushing the edge and sometimes they get it right (I like MSXML) and sometimes they don't. Data islands are a nice idea; so are CSS behaviors. Maybe more vendors should be more receptive to MS ideas rather than spending so much time in committee coming to consensus on alternatives that do the same thing yet another way. len -----Original Message----- From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] My personal experience (most particularly in the XML and HTML arena) is that it is possible but quite tedious to get real interoperability between MS and other tools. I would be astonished if very many experienced people disagree. As far as I know, this is also true with Word's HTML output, Kerberos, ODBC, Samba, SQL, Java, and many other areas as well.
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