EXCLUSIVE: Who Voted How In India's Document Format Battle

Tech2.com was the first to report last week on the results of the BIS LITD 15 Committee vote on changing India's negative stance towards the OXML document format at the International Standards Organization.

Well, a week has passed and the dust seems to have settled a bit since then. However, we've managed to get hold of the break-up of the 22-member ballot that was administered by the Bureau of Indian Standards in New Delhi on Thursday, 20th March 2008:

YES: 5

NASSCOM - National Assoc. of Software & Services Companies

Microsoft India

Tata Consultancy Services

Wipro

Infosys

NO: 13

IBM India

Red Hat India

Sun Microsystems India

NIC - National Informatics Centre

CDAC - Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

CSI - Computer Society of India

IISc - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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IITD - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

IITB - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

ISI - Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

IIMA - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

STQC - Standardization Testing and Quality Certification Directorate (Min. of Communications & IT)

DIT - Department of Information Technology (Min. of Communications & IT)

ABSTAIN: 1

MAIT - Manufacturers Association of Information Technology

ABSENT: 3

IEG - Institute of Economic Growth

RBI - Reserve Bank of India

NISG - National Institute for Smart Government

We'll be checking with as many parties as we can on their reasons, though we're pretty certain most of them will decline to comment. Watch this space...