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
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…