除了相关企业能获得的一些真实或预想的益处外,ECMA标准相对与ISO标准的一个好处就是,可免费获得。
In addition to whatever real or perceived benefits that corporations get, ECMA standards have the advantage over ISO in that they are freely available.
ECMA是脚本语言的世界语(Esperanto)的方言。
Now here is something interesting: Apple sponsored the ECMA submission of Open XML.
The OOXML standard, available from ECMA, is distributed as a set of PDF documents, totaling around 6000 pages.
OOXML标准源于ECMA,是一组以PDF 形式发布的文档,共 6000页左右。
比如,第三版在被ECMA批准之后,紧接着就进入到ISO的审批流程