15 posts tagged “openoffice.org”

http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/
We believe that Open XML can help spark an explosion of innovation and investment, which will bring great benefits for customers and the broad ecosystem, in the years to come. We support Open XML becoming an ISO standard.

http://openxmldeveloper.org/
Announced March 21, 2006, the Open XML Formats Developer Group was initially founded by 40 organizations from around the world to provide a technical forum for developers who are interested in using the Ecma International-developed Office Open XML file formats. Membership in the community is open to anyone free of charge to enable broad development with the formats, regardless of platform. Below are further details on the community’s goals, developers who are involved in working with the Office Open XML formats, and quotes about the value of the community and the formats.

TESCO Intel Celeron £140 Ubuntu PC

TESCO AMD Athlon £190 Ubuntu PC

As well as Ubuntu these PCs also include http://www.openoffice.org/

The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org includes a word processor, presentation and spreadsheet applications, an HTML editor, and a drawing tool. It's all you need to create, process, review and revise the documents required in daily business.

This version of OpenOffice.org has extensive file-format compatibility with Microsoft Office, allowing users to better share files between platforms. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop includes fonts that are geometrically compatible with Microsoft fonts to provide better format fidelity when reading native Microsoft Office files. OpenOffice.org also exports documents in Adobe portable document format (PDF) with no additional software required.

While not an exact feature-for-feature match to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org provides the majority of functionality your users are used to in their daily business. The user interface requires little retraining for current Windows and Microsoft Office users and the file-import and export tools ensure that users never have to worry about file formats when collaborating with Microsoft Office users.

IBM is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, the programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/

I.B.M.’s engineers have been working with OpenOffice technology for some time. But last week, I.B.M. declared that it was formally joining the open-source group, had dedicated 35 full-time programmers to the project and would contribute code to the initiative.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

I.B.M.’s engineers have been working with OpenOffice technology for some time but last week, I.B.M. declared that it was formally joining the open-source group, had dedicated 35 full-time programmers to the project and would contribute code to the initiative.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

ODF compared against OOXML

You love OpenOffice, but you still use another app to make drawings.

Why? Because none of the shapes you need are easily available. Until now.

Custom OO Shapes is a repository of custom shapes you can use with the open source OpenOffice.Org Draw drawing app

MS odf-converter provides an Add-in to Word XP/2003/2007 to allow opening and saving OpenDocument format (ODF) files.

The converter is based on XSL transformations between two XML formats, along with some pre- and post-processing to manage the packaging (zip / unzip), schema incompatibility processings and the integration into Word. Along with the Add-in, we also provide a command line translator that allows doing
batch conversions. This translator could also be run on the server side for certain scenarios.

Sun announced today that it would make a "preview" version of its Office to ODF plugin in "mid February," with the full version to follow "later this spring."  Plugins will be available for use with both Sun's StarOffice as well as the open source OpenOffice.org office suite. 

The announcement comes five days after Microsoft announced the immediate availability of its Office to ODF plugin at SourceForge. 

News Items:

• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070202-8764.html
• http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070207115330164
• http://www.betanews.com/article/MS_Open_XML_ODF_Converter_Finished/1170448250
• http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/64863/index.html
• http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070207083913371
  

OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC ODF) which is used by Sun OpenOffice.org
http://www.odfalliance.org/

IS NOT THE SAME AS

Office Open XML (EMCA OOXML) which is used by MS Office
The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is called a "contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.

See also
OOXML Fact Sheet
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070131184453743
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070206145620473

There are quite a few organisations involved in the Open Document Format (ODF):

OpenDocument XML.org
The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300). OpenDocument provides a format that enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents.

The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
A 501c(3) non profit chartered to work in the public interest to support, promote and develop the OASIS OpenDocument File Format affectionately known as "ODf".  

ODF Alliance
Works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are fully and natively accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change.

OASIS
Standards are approved within an OASIS Committee, submitted for public review, implemented by at least three organizations, and finally ratified by the Consortium's membership at-large.