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NATO supports ODF open document format

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/NATO-supports-ODF-open-document-format--/111127

18 July 2008: NATO has included the International Standardization Organization's (ISO) certified Open Document Format (ODF) in its list of mandatory standards to promote interoperability. NATO's standards list includes Rich Text Format (RTF), extensible markup language (XML) and Office XP formats as requirements for the sharing of data. The list does not include Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's direct competitor to ODF, which is currently undergoing a controversial ISO certification process. Observers say that the Dutch Defence Ministry threw its weight behind ODF. The public sector in the Netherlands expressly supports open standards and open source. Jan Wildeboer, open source evangelist at Red Hat in Europe, told heise online that NATO support for ODF is an "good sign" and a "further step towards a truly open market, where proprietary solutions and open source software compete on equal terms". Open standards are the only feasible way to provide interoperability and avoid dependence on individual vendors. Wildeboer welcomed the European Commission's new proposal for a European Interoperability Framework (EIF) to promote the use of open standards that are not subject to patent license fees in the public sector.
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ODF vs. OOXML on the Eve of the BRM

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/jan08.php

Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Journal, December-January 2008. Vol VII No 1. Andy Updegrove.
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What's Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications

http://www.burtongroup.com/Guest/Ccs/WhatsUpDoc.aspx

Burton Group's Guy Creese and Peter O'Kelly: Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing. In this overview, Research Directors Guy Creese and Peter O'Kelly introduce ODF, OOXML, and related World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, and project their implications for future productivity applications.
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No ISO for Microsoft Means Little

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2180634,00.asp

Jason Brooks. eWeek. September 7, 2007. Opinion: ODF advocates are getting ahead of themselves by celebrating Microsoft's ISO failure.
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Sun Plug-in Brings ODF Support to Microsoft Office

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2163405,00.asp

Tiffany Maleshefski, eWeek, 27 July 2007 Review: Sun's ODF plug-in can play an important role in broadening interoperability between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office. Sun Microsystems' ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office won't usher in an era of universal document interoperability, but eWEEK Labs believes it is the best option currently available for adding Open Document Format support to Office's massive installed base. The plug-in, which Sun debuted on July 4 in the form of a freely downloadable 30MB installation package, enables users to read, edit and save ODF-formatted word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation documents using the 2000, XP, and 2003 versions of Microsoft Office.
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Game over for OpenDocument?

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072307-opendocuments-grounded.html

By Gary Edwards and Buck "Marbux" Martin, LinuxWorld.com, 23 July 2007. The quest for OpenDocument gets grounded by the hard realities of Microsoft Office-bound business processes. What's next for enterprise users who really want document interoperability?
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ODF Freely Available

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-freely-available.html

ODF is now available among ISOs Freely Available Standards.
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ODF/OpenOffice.org report published by the Finnish government

http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_openoffice_org_report_published

In December 2006, the Finnish Ministry of Justice decided to migrate to the open source OpenOffice.org office suite. The ministry and its administrative sector will also adopt the OpenDocument ISO standard for the file format of of- fice documents. After the migration, OpenOffice.org will be the primary office suite for 8500 persons and Microsoft Office for 1500 persons. All Windows XP workstations of the ministry and its administrative sector are installed with OpenOffice.org version 2. The migration decision was based on office software evaluation in 2005 and an extensive OpenOffice.org pilot project in 2006. The main results of the office software study are presented in the report including the various migration options considered during the evaluation. In the pilot project, the functionality and compatibility of OpenOffice.org was tested in daily office use. In addition, the evaluation of training and support requirements, work- station installations and configurations were among the tasks of the pilot project. The results of the pilot project are presented in the report. The report also gives information on the current status of the OpenOffice.org migration process.
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Throwing stones at people in glass houses

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/07/throwing-stones-at-people-in-glass.html

I work in a house with glass walls. Not literally, of course. The cost to air-condition such a house would be prohibitive. I mean that working on standard in OASIS is a public action, with process transparency and public visibility. The public doesn't see merely the end-product, or quarterly drafts, they can see (if they are so inclined) every discussion, every disagreement and every decision made by the TC, in near real-time. Our meeting minutes for our TC calls are posted for public inspection. Our mailing list archives, where most of the real work occurs, is there for the public to view. The comments submitted by the public are also available for anyone to read. This information is all archived from when the TC first met back in 2002, all the way to the discussions we're having today on spreadsheet formula namespaces.
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ODF v1.1 committee specification available for public review

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn?entry=odf_v1_1_committee_draft

The OASIS Open Document Technical Committee has been working on version 1.1 of the Open Document Format specification, which in large measure is focused on addressing the accessibility concerns raised by the accessibility subcommittee. Today OASIS has announced the public review of the Open Document Format v1.1 specification (you can view the PDF version of the specification as well). The 60-day review period runs from 27 July 2006 through 25 September 2006. This marks a significant milestone in the development of the Open Document Format standard - open and public review of an update to the open ODF file format, whose updates (primarily for accessibility) were themselves developed openly with the input from experts in accessibility technology including multiple individuals with a variety of disabilities. To my knowledge the only similarly open process for a file format - and specifically explicitly open to people with disabilities and experts in accessibility technology - is that of the World Wide Web and the Web Accessibility Initiative. Certainly no other office document file format has had this level of public openness, nor this level of participation by individuals with disabilities and experts in accessibility technology.
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OpenIndexer

http://www.san-com.net/index.htm

OpenIndexer is the fulltext search engine for files & templates saved in OpenDocument format and PDF files. Main features: Fulltext search, Index search in system and meta data, Local and network search, Backup & Restore, Creation of mobile archives on CD/DVD. OpenIndexer is freeware and runs under Windows NT/2k/XP/2003.
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What Is OpenDocument

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/27/what-is-opendocument.html

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an emerging file format standard for electronic office documents. Representing a triumph of common sense over the methods conceived before the rise of the Internet, ODF's goals are both exciting and controversial. Early adopters of the format include state and municipal governments in some near- and far-flung places, and this makes the format's progress a thing to watch. Yet innovation theory tells us there are some hurdles we all must overcome before ODF becomes a regular topic of conversation at the ballpark. Those in the know, however, recognize that we're in about the second inning of a barn-burner. So, grab a hot dog and a beer, and settle in for a classic.
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Add-in finitum

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/07/add-in-finitum.html

In this post, I will take another look at the Microsoft ODF Add-in debate, suggest some criteria for use in evaluating file format integration, and use those criteria to evaluate both Office 2007's support for the ODF formats, and OpenOffice's support for Microsoft's formats.
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ODF Notes and Reports from All Over (Installment VI)

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060723215016825

Last fall, when things were moving quite rapidly in the ODF/OpenXML (then called "Microsoft XML reference schema") front, I did a c. weekly series of blog entries titled as above, pulling together most of what I thought was worth reading from all manner of sources on this topic. Today, there are a number of sites that are fulfilling that function (Bob Sutor's blog is one of the most thoroughly and reliably updated), so I have not felt that this to be as necessary a task as before. Recently, however, the volume of news and commentary has risen to the point that perhaps there is a need for a new service for those interested in the ODF story: not a gathering, but a winnowing function, selecting those pieces of information, and those analyses, that are particularly worthwhile and shuffling them into some sort of coherently arranged bouquet of contrasting insights. That's what I'll try and do in this entry, and will continue to do on a periodic basis in the future if the chore seems to be worthwhile. So here goes.
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ODF: Path to greater interoperability

http://computerworld.com.my/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3989&pubid=4&issueid=97

Malaysia became one of the member countries which ratified the Open Document Format. Computerworld talks to Rosalyn Docktor, IBM worldwide governmental programs executive for open standards, on what ODF is, and why organisations should be concerned with its emergence.
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OpenFormula

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/07/openformula.html

There has been a lot of interest in the Open Document Format (ODF) and the 'problem' of formulas not being included in the standardisation process. Here is what I have learnt from this issue, and hope that it clarifies the issues surrounding this topic. The ODF does define simple formulas within its specification, e.g. the SUM() function, but it does not proceed to define ALL the other mathematical functions nor syntax on how to use them. It did not want to limit nor constrain how an application implements specific formulas. The committee decided this implementation detail was out of the scope of the ODF standard.
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ODF proposed to become Malaysian Standard by year-end 2006

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/07/odf_proposed_to.html

"I remember meeting Yoon Kit for the first time at the 21 April 2006 meeting of the SIRIM TC4 (Technical Committee on E-Commerce) when the vote by the committee members was unanimously YES to approve the then ISO/IEC JTC1 DIS 26300, i.e. the OpenDocument Format (ODF), and in turn for Malaysia to vote YES to ISO for it to become an ISO/IEC international standard. Since then, Yoon Kit became a fellow blogger here! Today, Yoon Kit and I, together with another fellow blogger here, Ditesh, each of us representing different organizations, were part of another historic SIRIM TC4 meeting, because the meeting now unanimously voted YES to proceed with the "project" for ODF (now ISO/IEC 26300) to be made a Malaysian Standard (acronym "MS")."
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OpenDocument/Web-based app pressure mounts on Microsoft

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3334

Last week, while Mashup Camp was taking place, a reader from Israel responded to my blog regarding Microsoft's support (actually, the lack thereof) of the OpenDocument Format. Microsoft recently got a lot of mileage in the press when it announced that it would be backing the development of an open source project designed to bridge the compatibility gap between Microsoft Office and OpenDocument Format — an alternative to Microsoft's file formats (including the forthcoming Office Open XML format due to ship with Office 2007) for saving and retrieving documents created with word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software.
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Plug-in will help archiving data sharing

http://www.gcn.com/print/25_20/41340-1.html

“Government records should be free of any proprietary software dependencies,” said Owen Ambur, chairman of the Federal CIO Council’s Extensible Markup Language Community of Practice. “We cannot defer to commercial vendors the prerogative for determining the formatting and structure of records that are inherently governmental in nature.”
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Lost in Translation

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/07/lost-in-translation.html

"In the last installment I looked at the way the ODF Add-in for Word 2007 integrates into the Word UI. Now let's drill down into an actual conversion and see what fidelity we get."
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Documents, documents everywhere...

http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2160137/documents-documents-everywhere

The release of Microsoft’s latest Office 2007 beta highlights the looming standards battle between Microsoft’s Open XML format and the Open Document Format. ODF is supported by a number of vendors but the dominance of Microsoft may mean that Open XML succeeds as the de facto standard. Unless enough public bodies insist on ODF.
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Microsoft Shrewdly Funds Open XML Translator Project

http://gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=141973

Gartner: Microsoft's strategy for attaining interoperability is shrewd. By using third parties to do the work and opening the project to the open-source community, Microsoft will minimize potential criticism from those who claim that Microsoft aims to undermine the ODF standard. The "open and save to ODF" function will be integrated into Office 2007, but will be a separate menu item and so less seamless than the open and save functions for other file formats (which occur from the standard open and save dialogue boxes). Gartner believes that the project should add a 'compatibility checker' function for ODF documents to provide guidance regarding which functions will not translate. Gartner expects uncertainty regarding which document format will become the de facto standard to continue through at least 2008. Through 2009, the majority of documents will still be exchanged in Microsoft binary formats (0.7 probability).
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More details on the Microsoft Office ODF translator

http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/41294.html

Last week, Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., announced the Open XML Translator project, an effort to build a series of plug-ins to convert Microsoft Office documents to the Open Document Format. And, as with any debate as spirited as the one between Microsoft and the ODF community, the story was distorted in all sorts of ways by an overeager press. Jason Matusow, director of standards affairs for Microsoft, answers questions.
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TextMaker Viewer

http://www.officeviewers.com/

Here you can download the free TextMaker Viewer from SoftMaker that lets you open, view, and print documents from Microsoft Word, TextMaker, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument as well as other common office file formats.
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Microsoft Shifts ODF Stance

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=government&articleId=112343&taxonomyId=13

In a tacit acknowledgment of the OpenDocument format's increased momentum, Microsoft Corp. said last week that it will back an open-source project to create software that will allow Microsoft Office users to open and save files in ODF.
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