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The battle continues between Microsoft and IBM over the right open standard approach to service-oriented architectures (SOA).  This article from CNET discusses the continuing struggle to agree on a open SOA format.  Both Microsoft and IBM are major players in ECMA, each one supports a different format, IBM  favors
OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. While Microsoft
favors Office Open XML (OOXML), which was originally developed in-house at
Microsoft.  Hopefully they will find  acompromise that will provide a open approach to SOA.  The interoperability would be a great boon to numerous vendors and enterprises going forward.  Doesn’t it seem like we have been here before.