[Am-info] Re: query about MS "Innovations"

[Mitch Stone]

On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Gene Gaines wrote:

> Regarding data sharing among applications, wasn't Apple's OpenDoc earlier
> and better than OLE?

I believe OLE was released before OpenDoc, but this isn't the relevant 
comparison in any event. As I said earlier, Publish and Subscribe was 
Apple's comparative technology, and it did arrive before OLE. John has 
already explained OpenDoc in some detail. Compared to object linking, it 
was potentially a much more revolutionary approach -- unlike object 
linking, which is applications-centric, OpenDoc was document-centric.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com