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MA Chooses OASIS OpenDoc XML as Office Standard (Groklaw)
Groklaw
reports on a plan to migrate all of the Massachusetts state agencies
to the OpenDocument standard by the beginning of 2007.
"As they
themselves acknowledge, "Given the majority of Executive Department agencies
currently use office applications such as MS Office, Lotus Notes and
WordPerfect that produce documents in proprietary formats, the magnitude of
the migration effort to this new open standard is considerable."
Considerable, yes, but if your goal is interoperability, both necessary and
worth the effort, as anyone who has ever tried to interoperate in WordPerfect
with someone working in MS Office can testify."
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This is great news! Posted Sep 1, 2005 18:11 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659) [Link] Outstanding. As a Massachusetts resident, since learning about our government's open standards project, I've been meaning to write them a letter suggesting that they use OpenDoc XML, but procrastinated. I am very pleased that they came to the same conclusion without me. :-)
Now I have a deadline of next Friday to write in support of the proposal...
First HTTP/HTML, now this small start toward OpenDoc world domination. Microsoft will be dragged into the era of Open Standards, kicking and screaming if necessary. Thank you Massachusetts!
MA Chooses OASIS OpenDoc XML as Office Standard (Groklaw) Posted Sep 4, 2005 13:28 UTC (Sun) by welinder (guest, #4699) [Link] This is totally absurd. OASIS OpenDoc, as far as spreadsheets areconcerned, is not a standard. It might become one someday, but at v1.0 it is not.
The alleged standard totally fails to deal with formulas! I can make
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/mortenw/2005/06/16/0
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