Having being exposed to the OpenXML training I feel assured that the long outstanding issue of the closed architecture of the MS Office productivity suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) documents has been very well addressed. The previously closed architecture that dominated the Microsoft Office productivity suite documents is now fully open and available to developers to create and edit in their own applications. The many examples provided in the proposed standard for ISO consideration makes it easy for developers to adopt very quickly. The fact that a document in the productivity suite can be created programmatically and exists as an XML document makes for endless possibilities such as in real-time dynamic document creation and manipulation. The opensource Burrokeet project (www.burrokeet.sta.uwi.edu) will finally be able to include MS Office documents in its repository and manipulate without needing the MS Office applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint - good going Microsoft, I fully support this effort!

Rajendra G. Singh
Systems Engineer - Network Security
The University of the West Indies