Re: Fwd: RE: license and patent issues with PMXML

On Mandag 08 november 2004 22:39, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 19:39, Mark Tombs wrote:
> > On Monday 08 November 2004 17.15, [email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> I'm not very familiar with any project management software (ok, a
> little bit of Mr. Project with 0.9 version, but nothing serious).
> So I'm also not very familiar with requirements to file formats.
> But reading the posts here it seems to me that the format is
> somewhat a bit restricted.
>
> I see 2 possible solutions to this (or 3):
>
> a) contact these people to improve PMXML
IMVHO, I think they probably have met their objective, to enable data 
exchange between PMs. They didn't intend to save *all* data needed to 
recalculate. It doesn't mean extending it is out of the question, 
though.
>
> b) create own (OASIS??) standard or find another standard we can
> use
Personally I would have liked this better, but it is of course a lot 
of work. Anyone?
>
> c) stick to what we have now
Well, I think this is what's going to happen, short term, at least.
>
>
> Regards,
> Raphael

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Mvh,
Dag Andersen